A comparison of commonly used processes for multi-site software development

Abstract

This chapter describes some commonly used multi-site software development processes and compares them with respect to the amount of coordination that they support across locations. Specifically, two common processes, called the "Extended Workbench Model" and "System of Systems Model" model will be compared based on our experience. The processes have each been experimentally applied over several years to a global development project, called the Global Studio Project (GSP) in which university students around the world have simulated the processes used for an industrial multi-site development project. Lessons learned will be discussed and guidance given for multi-site development projects based on our experience from experimental and real projects. © 2010 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.