TY - GEN
T1 - Governance mechanisms in global development environments
AU - Dubinsky, Yael
AU - Ravid, Shy
AU - Rafaeli, Anat
AU - Bar-Nahor, Ronen
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - Governance has emerged in the last few years as critical to the success of software development, a result of an increased focus on team work. Governance of software teams includes practices of defining and executing decision rights and mechanisms to empower the development process to be governed. We report on an empirical survey of team members of global development projects in six companies. Using factor analysis, we classify four governance mechanisms as follows: governance definition, governance enactment, business awareness, and goal achievement. The results reveal among others that high levels of governance definition and goal achievement in a team are related to a lower level of team conflict. These significant relationships as well as the lack of significant relationships between the other governance mechanisms and team conflict, offers important insight into enhancing the effectiveness of global teams through governance.
AB - Governance has emerged in the last few years as critical to the success of software development, a result of an increased focus on team work. Governance of software teams includes practices of defining and executing decision rights and mechanisms to empower the development process to be governed. We report on an empirical survey of team members of global development projects in six companies. Using factor analysis, we classify four governance mechanisms as follows: governance definition, governance enactment, business awareness, and goal achievement. The results reveal among others that high levels of governance definition and goal achievement in a team are related to a lower level of team conflict. These significant relationships as well as the lack of significant relationships between the other governance mechanisms and team conflict, offers important insight into enhancing the effectiveness of global teams through governance.
KW - Governance of software development
KW - governance definition
KW - governance enactment
KW - group conflict
KW - team process
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=81255138765&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/ICGSE.2011.28
DO - 10.1109/ICGSE.2011.28
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:81255138765
SN - 9780769545035
T3 - Proceedings - 2011 6th IEEE International Conference on Global Software Engineering, ICGSE 2011
SP - 6
EP - 14
BT - Proceedings - 2011 6th IEEE International Conference on Global Software Engineering, ICGSE 2011
T2 - 6th IEEE International Conference on Global Software Engineering, ICGSE 2011
Y2 - 15 August 2011 through 18 August 2011
ER -