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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Distributed development"”.
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Geographically Distributed Development : trends, challenges and best practices
… the last decade signifies the Geographically Distributed Development (GDD) or Global Software Development (GSD) as a software industry norm or necessity that is receiving considerable interest from companies all over the world. This thesis clarifies the terms used in distributed development …
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Data monitoring web services in a virtual lab environment
… for such a task can be achieved only by using a distributed infrastructure, with dedicated resources to data acquisition, archival and rendering. Distributed development technologies like DCOM, CORBA, RMI and SOAP, essentially extensions of simple RPC protocols, provide the interconnectivity …
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Distributed new product development structures and schedule overrun
… relationship between attributes of new product distributed structures and schedule overrun. Data on 75 projects undertaken by Cisco Systems using distributed structures to develop new products were used to test four hypotheses. The hypotheses examined how (i) the proportion of the product design …
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The Storage of Parametric Data in Product Lifecycle Management Systems
Product development companies are continually seeking methods to increase efficiency while maintaining quality. Distributed development is also more important than ever before as industries globalize. These forces have driven firms to adopt formal data management practices that allow groups and …
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A Tag Contract Framework for Modeling Heterogeneous Systems
In the distributed development of modern IT systems, contracts play a vital role in ensuring interoperability of components and adherence to specifica- tions. The design of embedded systems, however, is made more complex by the heterogeneous nature of components, which are often described using …
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Adopting agile methodologies in distributed software development
… practitioners introduced a new group of software development methodologies called Agile Methodologies (Ams): they have been developed to overcome the limits of the traditional approaches in the software development. FLOSS (Free Libre Open Source Software) has been proposed as possible different …
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Transitioning technology from R&D to production
Corporate research and development (R&D) drives progress in the high-tech industries. Companies that advance the state-of-the-art in product performance enjoy significant advantages over the competition. However, although technical achievement may be required for competitiveness, it is far from …
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An Investigation into quality assurance of the Open Source Software Development model
The Open Source Software Development (OSSD) model has launched products in rapid succession and with high quality, without following traditional quality practices of accepted software development models (Raymond 1999). Some OSSD projects challenge established quality assurance approaches, claiming …
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Adoptive governance in distributed agile development projects
… for research to increase the knowledge on how development firms could generate and enhance value from their distributed IT projects. Recent literature indicates the need for studies to address significant challenges of distributed information systems development teams, such as cultural …
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Feature performance metrics in a service as a software offering
… of software delivery but also has an impact on development. Releasing updates to customers is immediate and the development, product and marketing teams have access to customer usage information. These dynamics create a fast feedback loop between developments to customers. To fully leverage this …
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Software Ecosystem Sustainability, a Socio-Technical Perspective
… software ecosystems (SECOs) developed by distributed teams and organizations dispersed across the globe. Despite the growing success of these SECOs, many questions remain regarding their long-term sustainability, in particular in terms of what socio-technical activities during a SECO's …
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Modeling distributed product development processes in small and medium enterprises
Effective and efficient product development (PD) is critical to the success of many firms. The market's emphasis on getting faster and cheaper products has forced firms to shift their PD practices from sequential to distributed development practices. This shift has significantly increased …
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Analyzing the effects of product architecture on technical communication in product development organizations
Effective communication in product development organizations has been identified as a key factor of product development performance. Furthermore, understanding how the development organization manages the knowledge associated with the product architecture is broadly recognized as a critical …