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Lookup NU author(s): Sami Alajrami, Emeritus Professor Alexander RomanovskyORCiD
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0).
Copyright © 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press. Allocating tasks to distributed sites in Global Software Development (GSD) projects is often done unsystematically and based on the personal experience of project managers. Wrong allocation decisions increase the project's risks as tasks have dependencies that are inherited by the distributed sites. Decision support can help make the task allocation a more informed and systematic process. The challenges in allocating tasks to distributed sites exist because of three distance dimensions between sites (geographical, temporal and cultural). An informed task allocation decision needs to consider these distances. Therefore, in this paper, we propose to integrate and semi-automate the calculation of an existing Global Distance Metric (GDM) into an architecture that supports executing cloud-based software processes. We analyze the potential of integrating the GDM into this architecture and identify the needed extensions to the architecture.
Author(s): Alajrami S, Gallina B, Romanovsky A
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: International Journal of Networked and Distributed Computing
Year: 2017
Volume: 5
Issue: 4
Pages: 221-232
Online publication date: 30/10/2017
Acceptance date: 02/04/2016
Date deposited: 17/01/2018
ISSN (print): 2211-7938
ISSN (electronic): 2211-7946
Publisher: Atlantis Press
URL: https://doi.org/10.2991/ijndc.2017.5.4.4
DOI: 10.2991/ijndc.2017.5.4.4
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