TY - GEN
T1 - Cultural differences in temporal perceptions and its application to running efficient global software teams
AU - Egan, Richard W.
AU - Tremaine, Marilyn
AU - Fjermestad, Jerry
AU - Milewski, Allen
AU - O'Sullivan, Patrick
PY - 2006
Y1 - 2006
N2 - Global software development has been found to be a difficult undertaking, in particular, when members of a single team are not co-located. Studies have looked at the impact of different cultural backgrounds, communication structures and temporal distance on the team's effectiveness. This research proposes to examine the impact of culturally based perceptions of time. A gap analysis is proposed to carry out this examination. The gap that will be measured is the gap between time-based attitudes and behavior in team unit A and team unit B where units A and B are part of the same team but are not co-located. These timebased attitudes and behavior will be compared to measures of team satisfaction and team effectiveness. A model of the impact of the temporal cultural differences and their effect on team performance is presented and the proposed research for testing this model is described.
AB - Global software development has been found to be a difficult undertaking, in particular, when members of a single team are not co-located. Studies have looked at the impact of different cultural backgrounds, communication structures and temporal distance on the team's effectiveness. This research proposes to examine the impact of culturally based perceptions of time. A gap analysis is proposed to carry out this examination. The gap that will be measured is the gap between time-based attitudes and behavior in team unit A and team unit B where units A and B are part of the same team but are not co-located. These timebased attitudes and behavior will be compared to measures of team satisfaction and team effectiveness. A model of the impact of the temporal cultural differences and their effect on team performance is presented and the proposed research for testing this model is described.
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U2 - 10.1109/ICGSE.2006.261216
DO - 10.1109/ICGSE.2006.261216
M3 - Conference contribution
SN - 0769526632
SN - 9780769526638
T3 - Proceedings - 2006 IEEE International Conference on Global Software Engineering, ICGSE 2006
SP - 55
EP - 61
BT - Proceedings - 2006 IEEE International Conference on Global Software Engineering, ICGSE 2006
T2 - 2006 IEEE International Conference on Global Software Engineering, ICGSE 2006
Y2 - 16 October 2006 through 19 October 2006
ER -