Coping with distance: An empirical study of communication on the Jazz platform

• Main Authors: SINDHGATTA, Renuka, SENGUPTA, Bikram, DATTA, Subhajit
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2011
• Subjects: Communication; Delay; Distributed development; Databases and Information Systems; Organizational Communication; Software Engineering
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/5574; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/6577/viewcontent/Coping_with_distance_pv.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Global software development - which is characterized by teams separated by physical distance and/or time-zone differences - has traditionally posed significant communication challenges. Often these have caused delays in completing tasks, or created misalignment across sites leading to re-work. In re...