Keele software expertise goes global

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Posted on 24 February 2012

A research team based in Keele's School of Computing and Mathematics are currently conducting a two-year EU-funded project, aimed at producing evidence-based risk management guidelines for global software developers.

Large-scale global development has led to significantly increased complexity with project managers required to co-ordinate multiple sites, multiple time zones and control multiple groups of developers with different cultural backgrounds. The Keele based project will produce guidelines to assist managers in dealing with the risks of globally distributed software development.

Professors Pearl Brereton, June Verner and Barbara Kitchenham are currently collaborating on this work. June, a New Zealander, is at Keele as an EU-funded Marie Curie International Fellow and brings her expertise in global software development to Keele's established international reputation in evidence-based software engineering (EBSE).

Barbara is also currently a visiting scholar at Hong Kong Polytechnic University. During her stay in China she will deliver seminars in Hong Kong, at Beijing University, and at the Chinese Academy of Science.

Professors Kitchenham and Brereton, together with Professor David Budgen, from Durham, have made significant contributions to the increasing international prominence of EBSE and its associated technologies.

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