MuNDDoS: um modelo de referência para desenvolvimento distribuído de software

• Ano de defesa: 2003
• Autor(a) principal: Prikladnicki, Rafael
• Orientador(a): Audy, Jorge Luis Nicolas
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul; Porto Alegre
• Palavras-chave em Português: INFORMÁTICA; ENGENHARIA DE SOFTWARE; SISTEMAS DISTRIBUÍDOS
• Link de acesso: http://hdl.handle.net/10923/1631

Software has become a vital component of almost every business. Success increasingly depends on using software as a competitive advantage. More than a decade ago, seeking lower costs and access to skilled resources, many organizations began to experiment with remotely located software development facilities and with outsourcing. Economic forces are relentlessly turning national markets into global markets and spawning new forms of competition and cooperation that reach across national boundaries. This change is having a profound impact not only on marketing and distribution but also on the way products are conceived, designed, constructed, tested, and delivered to customers. The number of organizations distributing their software development processes worldwide aiming at heightened profit and productivity as well as cost reduction and quality improvements keeps increasing. Software development is increasingly a multi-site, multicultural, globally distributed undertaking. Engineers, managers, and executives face formidable challenges on many levels, from the technical to the social and cultural. More recently, attention has turned toward trying to understand the factors that enable multinationals and virtual corporations to operate successfully across geographic and cultural boundaries. This way, the purpose of this dissertation is to propose a reference model for distributed software development. The research method is case study and the empirical base involves two software development centers from two multinational organizations located in Brazil. The research contributions are the reference model and a model to c1assify the levels of dispersion in distributed projects. Moreover, empirical data is presented, systemizing part of the theory in this recent area.