Factors Affecting Audio and Text-Based Communication Media Choice in Global Software Development Projects

Tuomas Niinimäki, A. Piri, C. Lassenius
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Software development as a knowledge intensive activity involves high requirements for communication and collaboration between its practitioners. In global software development, geographical, cultural and language distances bring additional challenges to communication. While text-based communication is very common in global software projects, recent improvements in telecommunications technology and network infrastructure have enabled ad-hoc audio conferencing as an economically feasible and available communication medium. Media richness theory suggests audio conferencing as a richer medium to have potential in leveraging uncertainty and equivocality, while media synchronicity theory suggests using multiple communication media to accomplish a task. This empirical qualitative study is based on 57 interviews from eight global software development projects. We discovered that self-conception of poor language skills leads to preference to use text-based communication media. We also found out that technical personnel tends to prefer text-based communication media more than non-technical team members.
影响全球软件开发项目中基于音频和文本的通信媒介选择的因素
软件开发作为一项知识密集型活动,对实践者之间的沟通和协作有很高的要求。在全球软件开发中,地理、文化和语言的距离给沟通带来了额外的挑战。虽然以文本为基础的通信在全球软件项目中非常普遍,但最近电信技术和网络基础设施的改进使特设音频会议成为经济上可行和可用的通信媒介。媒介丰富性理论认为音频会议作为一种更丰富的媒介,具有利用不确定性和模糊性的潜力,而媒介同步性理论则建议使用多种传播媒介来完成任务。这一实证定性研究是基于来自8个全球软件开发项目的57个访谈。我们发现,语言能力差的自我认知导致人们更倾向于使用基于文本的交流媒体。我们还发现,技术人员比非技术团队成员更倾向于使用基于文本的交流媒体。
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