Introduction to the 1ST international workshop on global software development for the practitioner

ABSTRACT

This International Workshop on Global Software Development for the Practitioner (GSD2006) is held in conjunction with the 28TH International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2006) on May 23RD , 2006 in Shanghai, China. The workshop is motivated by the industry trend toward developing software in globally distributed settings: geographically distributed teams or outsourcing part of software development to other organizations in other parts of the world. Topics presented and discussed in the workshop focus on grounded, practical strategies and techniques that address the geographical, temporal, organizational and cultural boundaries inherent in global software projects.

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Index Terms

• Software and its engineering