Analyzing intercultural factors affecting global software development - a position paper

This position paper presents the efforts we have undertaken to study the impact of intercultural factors on global software development projects. A bottom-up approach looks at the effect of individual intercultural factors on software practices, while a top-down approach strives to identify positive or negative organizational and behavioral patterns.

[1]  Lionel Laroche,et al.  Managing Cultural Diversity in Technical Professions , 2002 .

[2]  Dee G. Appley.  Beyond Culture , 1977 .

[3]  Jean Thilmany,et al.  Managing across cultures , 2021, Advertising Management in a Digital Environment.

[4]  Mayuram S. Krishnan,et al.  The role of software processes and communication in offshore software development , 2002, CACM.

[5]  E. Schein.  Organizational Culture and Leadership , 1991 .

[6]  E. Kelly.  Individualism and collectivism , 1901 .

[7]  W. Lambert,et al.  Structures of Social Life: The Four Elementary Forms of Human Relations. ALAN PAGE FISKE , 1993 .

[8]  Gert Jan Hofstede,et al.  Exploring Culture: Exercises, Stories and Synthetic Cultures , 2002 .

[9]  Philippe Kruchten,et al.  The Rational Unified Process: An Introduction , 1998 .

[10]  A. Fiske.  The four elementary forms of sociality: framework for a unified theory of social relations. , 1992, Psychological review.

[11]  Ken Schwaber,et al.  Agile Software Development with SCRUM , 2001 .

[12]  P. Richardson.  Managing cultural diversity , 2005 .

[13]  N. Adler.  International Dimensions of Organizational Behavior , 1986 .

[14]  Kent L. Beck,et al.  Extreme programming explained - embrace change , 1990 .

[15]  G. Hofstede,et al.  Cultures and Organizations: Software of the Mind , 1991 .

[16]  Dale Walter Karolak.  Global Software Development: Managing Virtual Teams and Environments , 1999 .

[17]  Erran Carmel,et al.  Global software teams: collaborating across borders and time zones , 1999 .

[18]  Erran Carmel,et al.  Tactical Approaches for Alleviating Distance in Global Software Development , 2001, IEEE Softw..

[19]  B. Cocroft,et al.  Book reviewStructures of social life: the four elementary forms of human relations: Alan Page Fiske New York: Macmillan Inc., 1991, 480 pp., $29.95 (cloth) , 1994 .

[20]  Judith S. Olson,et al.  Culture Surprises in Remote Software Development Teams , 2003, ACM Queue.