In-Time Project Status Notification for All Team Members in Global Software Development as Part of Their Work Environments

In global software development (GSD) projects, all team members (e.g., project manager, quality assurance, technical leader, and developer) can benefit from being aware on the project status regarding their area of responsibility. While there is considerable attention on providing project overview data and tool support to the project manager, there is only weak support for the other roles, resulting in higher project risk in a GSD project due to less opportunity for informal communication. In this paper we suggest the needs and propose a concept to allow keeping all relevant roles informed using in-time notification on significant project events. Team members can subscribe to specific notification services provided by project infrastructure. In a typical usage scenario these notification services promise to provide information for more effective and efficient change impact analysis in concurrently evolving software development artifacts. Index Terms — Data-driven management of distributed development projects, Software Project Monitoring, Strategies for distributed controlling, Role-based in-time project status notification.