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Summary: A book for students and managers alike
Review: After using it as a course text for the Computer-Supported Co-operative working, Dr. Carmel's views about culture and technology are true. I am in a course, which has students from 10 different countries in 4 continents. We worked together using different collaborative tools. The gains and problems we experienced are in line with what Dr. Carmel described.The book has examples with real world firms, from large to small, in industrialised countries to developing countries. It describes the problems they all face and how they solve them, and in some cases, turning them into advantages. I recommend this book to both students and software developers who are involved in global teams. Since global development will continue to grow with advances in technology, we all need to fully comprehend all the issues involved for it to succeed.
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Summary: Thought Leadership on Global Implementations
Review: Global Software Teams provides an excellent resource for projects teams embarking on a global implementation project. The book provides insight into how to engage team members of different cultures and backgrounds as well as tools to use to support their continued active participation on the project. I have employed the key messages from the book on my global projects with excellent results.
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Summary: Thought Leadership on Global Implementations
Review: Global Software Teams provides an excellent resource for projects teams embarking on a global implementation project. The book provides insight into how to engage team members of different cultures and backgrounds as well as tools to use to support their continued active participation on the project. I have employed the key messages from the book on my global projects with excellent results.
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Summary: A book you should not miss.
Review: If you have anything to do with global software development, read this book. It will bring you food for thought and fun and you will profit a lot. The book is never too deep to be readable nor too shallow to be usable, and obviously based on a wealth of real-world experience. I much liked the absence of over-hyped rhetoric.
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Summary: Overview and Table of Contents
Review: Is part of your software development team 10,000 kilometers away? Global software teams collaborate on a software project across international borders. Distance, dispersion, time zone differences, and cultural differences present a whole new set of issues for software developers. Based on best practices from many software organizations, this book will help you address many of the unique problems of global software development. Highlights include best practices roundup for each topic as well as case studies. I have attached a slightly annotated table of contents to give you more of the feel for the book. Enjoy! Table of contents PREFACE + What is unique about global software teams? PART I: WHY GLOBAL SOFTWARE TEAMS? Chapter 1: Why we're seeing more global software teams. [Fifteen factors explain the recent explosion of these kinds of teams]. Chapter 2: Three tales of global software teams. [Includes the case study of IBM's five-site project to develop JavaBeans]. Chapter 3: The bottom line: are global software teams successful? PART II: THE FIVE CENTRIFUGAL FORCES OF GLOBAL SOFTWARE TEAMS Chapter 4: Dispersion, coordination breakdown, loss of "communication richness," and loss of "teamness" Chapter 5: Cultural differences PART III: THE SIX CENTRIPETAL FORCES FOR SUCCESSFUL GLOBAL SOFTWARE TEAMS Chapter 6: Telecommunications infrastructure Chapter 7: Collaborative technology: generic technology [such as e-mail] and technology to support software engineering [such as Software Configuration Management systems]. Chapter 8: Development methodology. [Why it is now even more important]. Chapter 9: Architecture & task allocation Chapter 10: Building the dispersed team through trust, communication, and personal bridges. [Includes communication and e-mail guidelines, managing time zone differences]. Chapter 11: Specialized management techniques. [Includes design of the global team and selection of the global software manager]. PART IV: GLOBAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS TEAMS Chapter 12: Globalization and information systems Chapter 13: A methodology for defining global IS systems & designing global IS teams. [The "Process/ System/ Responsibility" method for core global business applications]. Chapter 14: Holiday Inn's 'A Passage To India.' [A case study of a US-based corporation and its experiences insourcing and outsourcing].
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Summary: This book was written to be read!
Review: This book is a gold mine! For those needing guidance in global software development practice, this book is a must read."Global Software Teams" supplies orginal prescriptions for dealing with cultural differences and collaborative teams not found anywhere. A work in progress, the advice on Global Information Systems Teams is well reasoned. Important telecommunications, development, methodologies, architecture and task alloiaction, and management techniques provide a useful survey of pertinent topics that will benefit any project, especially those engaged in global software development.Dr. Erran Carmel has written a book software managers can use.
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Summary: This book was written to be read!
Review: This book is a gold mine! For those needing guidance in global software development practice, this book is a must read."Global Software Teams" supplies orginal prescriptions for dealing with cultural differences and collaborative teams not found anywhere. A work in progress, the advice on Global Information Systems Teams is well reasoned. Important telecommunications, development, methodologies, architecture and task alloiaction, and management techniques provide a useful survey of pertinent topics that will benefit any project, especially those engaged in global software development.Dr. Erran Carmel has written a book software managers can use.
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