Um modelo de referência para emulação de proximidade física no desenvolvimento distribuído de software

Abstract

Technological advances verified in recent years have enabled organizations to simulate collocation in the context of distributed software development. The aim of simulating collocation is to give the perception that they are in the same workplace, communicating, collaborating and coordinating in a way similar to what they do with local teams. The adoption of tools, methods and technologies in this context helps to minimize the challenges verified by geographical, temporal and cultural differences between the distributed teams, such as for sample, people and project coordination, collaboration, communication among project members, risk management and knowledge management. This way, the purpose of this dissertation is to understand how real time simulated collocation is being used by distributed software development teams, including advantages, disadvantages and challenges. A reference model for real-time simulated collocation is proposed, specifically for those distributed teams that have overlapping of working hours. The research method used is case study and the empirical base involves software development projects that use real-time simulation collocation.