Configuring global software teams: A multi-company analysis of productivity, quality, and profits

• Main Authors: RAMASUBBU, Narayanasamy, CATALDO, Marcelo, BALAN, Rajesh Krishna, HERBSLEB, James
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2011
• Subjects: empirical analysis; globally distributed software development; quality management; software engineering economics; Software Engineering
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/1350; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/2349/viewcontent/ConfigGlobalSoftwareTeams_2011.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

In this paper, we examined the impact of project-level configurational choices of globally distributed software teams on project productivity, quality, and profits. Our analysis used data from 362 projects of four different firms. These projects spanned a wide range of programming languages, applica...