To be held in conjunction with the 28th International Conference and Software Engineering 2006
23 May, 2006

Themes and Goals | Call for Papers | Paper Submission | Important Dates | Program | Organizers
| Program Committee | Contact Information | ICSE 2006 Information
| Workshop Programme | NEW: Full Papers and Presentations

Themes and Goals

Over the past decade IT professionals worldwide have witnessed the flourishing of global software development as a result of outsourcing and offshoring. While global software development is attractive with its offer of large talent pools and reduced labour cost, it is not the magic potion to project success. Managers and developers engaged in global software development agree that cross-site, cross-cultural projects “do not just happen.” Rather, projects are confronted by countless challenges, from project set-up, to progress control, to day-to-day communication, and even to managing of cultural conflicts. All of these issues can become serious obstacles that require careful examination and practical solutions.

The goal of the workshop “Global Software Development for the Practitioner” is to provide a forum for researchers and professionals interested in global software development to meet and exchange ideas. In particular, this workshop will take the perspective of the practitioner and focus on tactics and techniques that will help software professionals navigate the challenges in the global development environment.

Call for Papers

We solicit submissions that articulate success strategies and carefully-constructed case studies of global projects, including lessons learned, as well as empirical research papers with practical implications. Proposals of development models and techniques that facilitate global software development processes are also of interest. While the primary interest of this workshop is not on innovations of support tools, we also seek contributions that study how software processes and practices are supported and/or affected by such collaborative tools.

Relevant topics include, but are not limited to:

• Organizational models and strategies
• Project management (e.g., risk management, progress monitoring, quality control)
• Managing peopleware (e.g., cross-cultural conflicts, distributed collaboration)
• System architecture
• Knowledge management
• Software process and practice improvement
• Productivity and quality issues
• IE protection and legal issues
• Education and training of practitioners
• Agility and global software development
• Team communication and coordination

The call for papers is also available in pdf format.

Paper Submission

Submissions are strictly limited to a maximum of 7 pages and must conform to the ICSE paper format (See the author information page of the ICSE website for the detailed format).

The submitted papers will be reviewed by members of the program committee and will be selected for presentation based on relevance to the workshop themes, contribution to the state of practice, and potential to generate interesting discussions. Accepted papers will be published in the ACM Software Engineering Notes.

Papers are to be submitted to gsd-icse-2006 (at) ece (dot) ubc (dot) ca

Important Dates

Event	Date
Paper Submission Deadline	1 February 2006
Acceptance Notification	22 February 2006
Camera-Ready Copy Deadline	7 March 2006
Workshop Date	23 May 2006

Program

To be announced.

Organizers

Philippe Kruchten
University of British Columbia, Canada
e-mail: pbk (at) ece (dot) ubc (dot) ca

Deependra Moitra,
Infosys, India
e-mail: deependra (at) moitra (dot) com

Christof Ebert
Alcatel, France
e-mail: Christof (dot) Ebert (at) alcatel (dot) com

Wolfgang Strigel
QA Labs, Canada
e-mail: strigel (at) qalabs (dot) com

Organizing Assistants:

Yvonne Hsieh,
University of British Columbia, Canada

Eve Macgregor,
Univesity of British Columbia, Canada

Program Committee

Daniela Damian (Canada)
Vibeke Dahlberg (Norway)
Lionel Laroche (Canada)
Pankaj Agarwal (Canada/India)
Frank Maurer (Canada)
Filippo Lanubile (Italy)
Christine Grimm (Scotland/Germany)
Rilla Khaled (New Zealand)
Orit Hazzan (Israel)
Yael Dubinsky (Israel)
Diomidis Spinellis (Greece)
Gargi Keeni (India)
Dehua Ju (China)
Erran Carmel (USA)
Dale Karolak (USA)

Contact Information

Please send e-mail correspondences to:

Yvonne Hsieh
e-mail: yvonneh (at) ece (dot) ubc (dot) ca

Eve Macgregor
e-mail: evem (at) ece (dot) ubc (dot) ca

ICSE 2006 Information

For information on conference/workshop registration, travel, accommodation, and venues, please visit the official ICSE 2006 Web Site