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CALL FOR PAPERS
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SPECIAL ISSUE ON: Management of Global Software Development:
Opportunities, Challenges and Lessons Learned
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Background and Scope
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Global Software development (GSD) has recently emerged as a viable
and
important software development paradigm. Many companies have been
adopting
GSD approaches due to limited availability of software development
expertise at the host companies and to reduce software development
costs.
Previous work suggests that half of the companies that have tried
GSD have
failed to realise the anticipated outcomes which has resulted in
poor global relationships, misunderstanding of the projects\'
requirements, high costs and poor services. There are many reasons
for these failures.
One of the major issues in GSD is that many clients endorse global
contracts with their vendors prior to testing their project
management capabilities for the global activity.
However, the scope of GSD is expanding from focusing only on
reducing cost to improving organisations\' overall management of
software development capabilities. Understanding issues relating to
managing GSD initiatives will help to ensure the successful outcome
of projects and to maintain long lasting relationships between
clients and vendors in different geographical locations. This
special issue is aimed to provide a forum for researchers and
practitioners to share their advancements on management of GSD
initiatives. We will welcome research papers which report new
methodologies, experiments, technologies and empirical studies.
Experience papers and practical reports on industrial case studies
are particularly welcomed.
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Topics
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-Managing global software development: planning,controlling,
directing, team building, managing diversity, measurements and
evaluation.
-Managing software process improvement in global software
development
-Communication, trust, coordination and collaboration challenges in
global software development
-Managing human behaviours in global software development
-Managing virtual software development teams
-Empirical studies of managing global software development
-Software process paradigms for global software development
(planned, agile, balanced, etc)
-Methods and tools for global software development: requirements
engineering, design, coding, verification, testing and maintenance
-Empirical studies of collaborative technologies in global software
development
-Empirical studies of global software development teams
-Strategic issues in managing global software development
(offshoring, nearshoring, onshoring etc.), w ork distribution
models, supplier selection and management, and costbenefit analysis
-Knowledge management in global software development
-Multi-cultural aspects in global software development
-Software global development risk management
-Global software development practices & metrics
-Economy of global software development
-Lessons learned from past projects
-Teaching global software development
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Proposed publication schedule
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Deadline for submission of
papers: 30 April 2011
Authors to receive a 1st
decision by: 30 August 2011
Final notification of acceptance:
30 November 2011
On-line and print publication:
February 2012 (subject to IET Schedule)
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Submission Guidelines
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All papers must be submitted through t he journal\'s Manuscript
Central system: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/iet-SEN
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Special issue guest editors:
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Dr. Mahmood Niazi (corresponding editor)
Keele University
E: m.k.niazi@cs.keele.ac.uk
Dr. Narciso Cerpa
Universidad de Talca
Dr. Valentine Casey
Dundalk Institute of Technology
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IET Publishing Dept. contact:
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Paul Rowley
Editorial Assistant
IET Software
E: prowley@theiet.org
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