Who Are We Doing Global Software Engineering Research For?

2013 IEEE 8th International Conference on Global Software Engineering Pub Date : 2013-08-26 DOI:10.1109/ICGSE.2013.14

Sarah Beecham, Pádraig O'Leary, Ita Richardson, S. Baker, J. Noll

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Twelve years ago a group of practitioners and researchers came together to try to solve problems relating specifically to Global Software Engineering (GSE) practice. This paper aims to assess whether the many hundreds of GSE research papers written over this period have had an impact on practice. We conducted semi-structured interviews with senior managers and project managers from ten companies, four of which are large multinationals (three in Fortune 100), four are medium sized enterprises, and two are small startups. GSE research is perceived as useful by industry with all participants stating that studying the subject would improve GSE performance, but all were unanimous in saying they did not read articles on GSE. Practitioners go to books, blogs, colleagues, forums, experience reports of 1-2 pages in length, or depend on their own experience to solve problems in GSE. Controversially, many didn't see GSE as separate from general project management. Practitioners don't want frameworks, they want patterns of context specific help. While dissemination techniques need to be improved, that is not sufficient. Experience-based advice is just as important.

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我们为谁做全球软件工程研究?

12年前，一组实践者和研究人员聚集在一起，试图解决与全球软件工程(GSE)实践具体相关的问题。本文旨在评估在此期间撰写的数百篇GSE研究论文是否对实践产生了影响。我们对10家公司的高级经理和项目经理进行了半结构化采访，其中4家是大型跨国公司(3家在《财富》100强中)，4家是中型企业，2家是小型初创企业。GSE研究被业界认为是有用的，所有参与者都表示，研究这个主题将提高GSE的表现，但所有人都一致表示，他们没有阅读关于GSE的文章。从业者通过书籍、博客、同事、论坛、长度1-2页的经验报告，或者依靠自己的经验来解决GSE中的问题。有争议的是，许多人没有将GSE与一般的项目管理分开。从业者不需要框架，他们需要特定于上下文的帮助模式。虽然传播技术需要改进，但这是不够的。基于经验的建议同样重要。

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