Virtual Teams: The Impact of Advanced Knowledge and Process Collaboration Technologies on Software Development Team Processes and Performance
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Virtual teams are becoming an important aspect of organisational life in many industries. In software development, virtual teams can be particularly useful as team members with the right skill set can generate code for a project no matter where they are in the world. However, this virtual setting often has limitations in terms of communication abilities, conflict, trust and performance. To improve the process of virtual software development, advanced knowledge and process collaboration technologies can be used. This proposal outlines an experiment to test the impact of using an advanced collaboration technology named MILOS in a virtual software development environment. It is hypothesised that by using MILOS as opposed to a less advanced collaboration technology, the measures of team trust, interaction quality and performance will be improved, with team conflict reduced. Virtual Teams: The Impact of Advanced Knowledge and Process Collaboration Technologies on Software Development Team Processes and Performance Alistair McKinnon
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