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Best Practices for Onboarding in Distributed Teams (Master)
Objectives: Conduct interviews with team leaders or project managers to survey the current practices regarding the integration of new members into virtual/distributed teams. Analyze existing literature and compare to the interview outcomes to derive a set of best practices for distributed team onboarding.
Software Support for Operations of Agile Distributed Software Engineering Teams - Current State and Outlook (Master)
Objectives: Review current software landscape of agile development support tools. Analyze suitability to support operations of distributed teams. Conduct interviews with practitioners to assess current state of tooling landscape and understand needs and requirements for further improvement of agile development tools.
Engineering Requirements Imposed by Lean and Agile Software Development
Agile Software Engineering in low spatial distance
Lean Software Development: A Systematic Mapping and Case Study
Kanban for Distributed Teams (or other lean/pull-based approaches)
Your own research proposal in this focus area
Collaborative Development of Open Source Software: the Role of Software Engineering Processes
A Pattern Language: How to cope with Coordination, Communication and Control challenges in Distributed Software Development
Agile Practices in a Distributed Environment: Implementation study of an Agile Distributed Process Framework
Putting an Agile Distributed Process Framework to the Test: Physical vs Electronic Usability Enhancements
The Impact of Cultural Diversity in Distributed Teams on Various Aspects of Project Management
Your own research proposal in this focus area
Examination of software engineering curricula at rural universities of the Global South*
Development of software engineering courses for communities in the Global South*
Distributed software engineering education for communities in the Global South*
Requirement engineering for software engineering education at universities in the Global South*
Challenges and impact of information and communication technologies in the Global South*
Your own research proposal in this focus area
* e.g. India or MozambiqueEfficient Integration of Usability and Accessibility into the Lifecycle of Web Development Projects
Multi-Vendor Software Engineering
Design requirements, Scaling Mechanisms and Proof-of-Concept for Process Tailoring
Your own research proposal in this focus area
Contact: amma[at]inso.tuwien.ac.at (incl. CV and formless motivation - either in German or English)
If you have another topic that may fit well with the AMMA group (Empirical Software Engineering, Distributed Software Development, Agile Methods, Software Project Management, Processes, Teams and Team Building), please send your research proposal, CV and formless motivation to amma[at]inso.tuwien.ac.at.