Week 13 Geographic Distributed Development

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Geographic Distributed Development(GDD) is a mode of software development that the business coordinates project teams located across the regions, countries and time zone.

As the growing of the out-source development from the in-house software development company to the outsider globally, we need to manage not only one company employee, but also the third party as well. We need to solve the conflicts between cultures differences, various languages, various values and conflicts between two companies.

In order to achieve a high quality product, we need to clarify the role of the among different company, or more accurately speaking, the Site, for example, the “Headquarter” only handle all the issues related to the Project and portfolio management, new features development, component, functional and system testing, all build and deployment activities. On the other hand, the “Branch” concern on maintenance coding on the current, client/server version of the application, unit testing of components modified during the maintenance coding, creates and modify requirements for the maintenance phase of the project..

This site shows that how to use RUP to adopt the GDD and with various tools, company can get the software development along with the running of the clock, i.e. 24 hours a day, 7 day-pre-week and reduce time-to-market.

In short: there's a whole lot more to the story of RUP can save time, cut cost, reduce risk, and improve quality on your next GDD project.