TY - GEN
T1 - Follow-the-sun methodology in a stochastic modeling perspective
AU - Czekster, Ricardo M.
AU - Fernandes, Paulo
AU - Prikladnicki, Rafael
AU - Sales, Afonso
AU - Santos, Alan R.
AU - Webber, Thais
N1 - Copyright:
Copyright 2011 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - Stochastic modeling of globally distributed projects has become a way to evaluate the performance of teams working in different time zones. The interest in extracting and analyzing quantitative data from geographically dispersed teams has grown throughout the years as major development companies were attracted by potential benefits. We direct our attention to Follow-The-Sun (FTS), a special case of globally distributed projects, where work is handed off every day from one development site to the next on a different time zone. The main benefit of FTS is to reduce project duration providing continuous software development. Our objective in this paper is to discuss a formal mapping of FTS characteristics to a stochastic model in order to predict performance indices of teams such as availability and risk assessment. The modeling effort aims to enhance understanding and feasibility evaluation for FTS projects.
AB - Stochastic modeling of globally distributed projects has become a way to evaluate the performance of teams working in different time zones. The interest in extracting and analyzing quantitative data from geographically dispersed teams has grown throughout the years as major development companies were attracted by potential benefits. We direct our attention to Follow-The-Sun (FTS), a special case of globally distributed projects, where work is handed off every day from one development site to the next on a different time zone. The main benefit of FTS is to reduce project duration providing continuous software development. Our objective in this paper is to discuss a formal mapping of FTS characteristics to a stochastic model in order to predict performance indices of teams such as availability and risk assessment. The modeling effort aims to enhance understanding and feasibility evaluation for FTS projects.
KW - Follow-the-Sun
KW - Global Software Development
KW - Performance Evaluation
KW - Stochastic Modeling
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=82855169636&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/ICGSE-W.2011.26
DO - 10.1109/ICGSE-W.2011.26
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:82855169636
SN - 9780769545585
T3 - Proceedings - 2011 6th IEEE International Conference on Global Software Engineering Workshops, ICGSE Workshops 2011
SP - 54
EP - 59
BT - Proceedings - 2011 6th IEEE International Conference on Global Software Engineering Workshops, ICGSE Workshops 2011
T2 - 2011 6th IEEE International Conference on Global Software Engineering Workshops, ICGSE Workshops 2011
Y2 - 15 August 2011 through 18 August 2011
ER -