Organizations have shown a significant interest in adopting human and communication-
oriented agile practices for Global Software Development (GSD). Agile practices originated …

Studying the collaborative behavior of online learning teams and how this behavior is
related to communication mode and task type is a complex process. Research about small …

Cancer research has led to more cancer patients being cured, and many more enabled to
live with their cancer. As such, some cancers are now considered a chronic disease, where …

Advances in global network connectivity over the past 10 years have significantly reduced
the effects that physical separation has on geographically distributed development teams. It …

Cultural diversity is assumed to be a fundamental issue in global software development.
Research carried out to date has raised concerns over how to manage cultural differences in …

Global software development is becoming a widely accepted practice in software industry.
While benefits of global software development have been identified and publicized, potential …

Context Global software development (GSD), although now a norm in the software industry,
carries with it enormous challenges mostly regarding communication and coordination …

There is a need to identify requirements engineering (RE) practices that are important to
global software development (GSD) project success. The objective of this paper is to report …

Context Individual and contextual factors have a profound impact on an individual's
creativity. In the first part of this research, we concluded that, for a programmer's creativity …

Context Software maintenance process in globally distributed settings brings significant
management challenges to software organizations. Objectives Investigate the factors …