Global Software Teams

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Global Software Teams

• Crossing Boarders
• The spread of development activities to newly
  industrialized, emerging, and developing nations
  e.g. India
• The transition of software development away from
  the traditional centralized, co-located form of
  development to a form in which global software
  terms collaborate across national boundaries,
  working on the same software project or product
  or system.
• A global Software Team - is separated by a
  national boundary while actively collaborating on
  a common software/system project

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Global Software Teams

• Catalyst Factors
• Sustaining factors
• Size Factors
• Vision Factors

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Global Software Teams

• Catalyst factors
• Specialized Talents
• Deployment of specialized talents anywhere in the
  world
• Acquisitions
• Expanding product families through acquisitions
• Example Baan

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Global Software Teams

• Catalyst Factors
• Reduction in Development Cost
• Software companies in high-wage nations are
  seeking low-cost programming cost
• India, Philippines, Russia, China and the Baltic
  countries
• Global Presence
• Reduction in time-to-market
• Following the sun
• Proximity to the customer
• Staying close to the customer,very important for
  requirement gathering and desing

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Global Software Teams

• Sustainable Factors
• Development Rigor
• Opportunity to establish discipline and
  formalized development methodology
• Internal Freshness
• Diversity brings new creativity and inspiration
• Cultural synergy helps problem solving, and
  design
• Distance from Distraction
• Santas little helpers

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Global Software Teams

• Sustanble Factors
• Professional Cadre of Software Globalists
• New executives established to create global teams
• Experience

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Global Software Teams

• Size Factors
• Software development size
• Top 50 software companies have over 1000
  employees
• Scale
• A need to spead out
• Evolving Synergies of Scale

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Global Software Teams

• Vision Factors
• Location Transparency
• Eliminating the perception of distance through
  technology
• The capacity to work with another colleague as if
  you were all in the same room
• Virtual Organizations
• Organization entities from different
  organizations around a structure resembling a
  network that has a weak hierarchy and weak
  center.
• Flexible, agile, responsive, and inexpensive
• Team based, activities defined by specific
  projects and tasks

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Flattening the Organizational Structure
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Virtual Organizational Structure
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Global Software Teams

• Will Global