[Colloq] Hiring Talk Tues Feb. 26 NOTE UNUSUAL TIME 9:30am

[Rachel Bates]

  Globally-Distributed Software Development:
	             The Bell Labs Collaboratory

                      Dr. James D. Herbsleb
		       Lucent Technologies


                    Tuesday, February 26, 9:30 a.m.
		          149 Cullinane Hall
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                             ABSTRACT

For the last several years, the Bell Labs Collaboratory research project has
focused on addressing the communication and coordination problems of large,
globally-distributed development projects.  The work has included empirical
studies of geographically distributed developments, and, based on our
results, solutions in the form of tools, best practices, and
work-distribution models.  We have also used the collaboration technologies
we developed as the basis for Lucent software products.  In this talk, I
will describe empirical results showing that distributed development takes
much longer than comparable co-located development, and evidence about why
this appears to occur.  I will also describe one of the tools we built and
deployed, i.e., a tool to facilitate the location of people with needed
expertise.  Finally, I will describe two services we prototyped as future
products, which take advantage of voice and data convergence to support
distributed teams.