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    Global Teams: Futuristic Models of Collaborative Work for Today's Software Development Industry
    (2009) Dafoulas,G.A.; Swigger,K.; Brazile,R.; Alpaslan,F.N.; Cabrera,V.L.; Serce,F.C.
    This paper emphasises the importance of global teams in the field of software development. The paper presents an approach for setting up pilot studies simulating those key features that make global software development teams particularly attractive to exploit and challenging to manage. The underlying research is supported by a research project funded by the US National Science Foundation with the participation of universities from US, Turkey, Panama and the UK. The paper provides detailed guidelines for setting up simulations resembling globally dispersed software development teams and discusses preliminary data of two pilot studies with involving collaboration between teams residing in the US and the UK. Key concerns of this research are those factors affecting collaborative work when global teams are involved. Such factors include differences caused by distance, culture, time zones and technology. © 2009 IEEE.
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    Supporting Collaboration in Global Software Development Through E-Learning
    (2009) Dafoulas,G.A.; Swigger,K.; Brazile,R.; Alpaslan,F.N.; Serce,F.C.; Cabrera,V.L.
    The paper provides an overview of a research study conducted over a period of one year as part of a three year project on supporting global software development learning teams. Emphasis is given on the role of e-learning in supporting the coordination, communication and collaboration in geographically dispersed learning teams. The paper describes how e-learning was used to facilitate teams from five different universities residing in US, UK, Turkey and Panama to work towards a number of global software development pilot studies. The paper focuses on instructional design issues by discussing the e-learning setting provided. Furthermore, the paper discusses key considerations relating to the project's strategy towards collaborative learning and the design of e-learning tasks. © 2009 IADIS.