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Supporting coordination of software development across organizational boundaries

Nguyen-Duc, Anh
Doctoral thesis
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http://hdl.handle.net/11250/283499
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2015
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Introduction: Large-scale software development requires a substantial amount of coordination.

Development and maintenance of code are simultaneously carried out by many individuals and

teams, and this code can be integrated and used in many software products. When projects spread

through organizational boundaries, such as projects involving multiple companies and autonomous

development units, different types of coordination problems appear, which requires suitable

coordination mechanisms.

Research objective: This thesis aims at generating new knowledge about coordination challenges

in inter-organizational software projects and proposing effective technical and managerial

solutions. The thesis addresses three main research questions (RQs):

RQ1. How is the collaboration of technical tasks characterized at organizational level?

RQ2. How do organizational boundaries impact coordination of development activities in

distributed software development?

RQ3. How can coordination practices and tools support software development across

organizational boundaries?

Research approach: This thesis reports about five studies conducted during four years, focusing

on collaboration and coordination of software development activities, such as open source software

(OSS) adoption, bug fixing, and duplicated code resolution in different types of interorganizational

projects. The research was performed in various forms, such as systematic literature

review, survey, case study and action research. Qualitative data were mainly collected in the form

of interviews and documents. Quantitative data were mainly collected from code repositories, issue

tracking systems, and mailing lists.

Results: Through a synthesis of contributions from eight papers (MP1-MP8), five contributions

connected to the three RQs have been identified:

C1. Identification of challenges and solutions for resolving OSS component integration

mismatches in commercial companies

C2. Synthesized impact of geographical and temporal boundaries on team performance and

software quality in DSD

C3. A classification framework presenting organizational boundaries that inhibit team

coordination activities during software development in DSD

C4. A description of boundary spanners’ capacities and activities in coordinating crossorganization

development tasks

C5. Recommendations to management and coordination of development tasks in multiple

platform systems

Conclusions: Organizational boundaries inhibit team coordination through collaboration policy,

team structure, engineering process, and development practice. Coordination needs across

organizational boundaries depend on not only the technical nature of tasks, but also organizational

policies. Relying on boundary spanners and cloning mechanisms across configuration management

systems, are two effective coordination approaches. Boundary spanners mediate task dependency,

status information, handle impacts of global boundaries, and facilitate practice exchanges.

Configuration management systems temporize coordination needs resolution, support identifying

and resolving duplicate dependencies and facilitate cross boundary meetings. Our research comes

up with several recommendations to improve coordination in specific project contexts. Future

research in DSD should focus on team coordination in an OSS context, co-existence of competition

and collaboration in commercial software ecosystems, and branching and merging practices in

multi-platform projects.
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