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Globally interactive collaboration with students from Peking University on software development, e-business, design and usability
The IT University of Copenhagen, Spring semester 2008, Project cluster
Teachers: John Paulin Hansen and Arne Glenstrup.
Find more information on course format, content, participants etc. in the course base in my.ITU
Time and place:
8-10: room 4A54
10-12: room 4A20
13-15: room 4A54
Week |
Date |
Topic |
Literature |
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5 |
28.01 |
Design & Specification |
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6 |
04.02 |
Design & Specification |
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7 |
11.02 |
Design & Specification |
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8 |
18.02 |
Intercultural Communication & Chinese culture |
Hofstede, Gert: Cultures and Organisations: Software of the Mind, Mc Graw-Hill, USA, 2005
Introduction
- Different minds but common problems, Culture as mental programming,
p. 1-5 (5 pages)
Dimensions of culture
- Power distance Index (PDI) p. 41-46 (6 pages)
- PDI and schools p. 53-54 (+table 2.3 p. 57) (2 pages)
- Individualism vs. Collectivism p. 75-79 ( 4 pages)
- Masculinity vs. femininity p. 118-122 ( 4 pages)
- Uncertainty Avoidance p. 166-170 (4 pages)
- konfucius p. 208-210 (2 pages)
- Long-Short term oriented p. 210-212 (3 pages)
Extras...
- Language and Humour p.327-330 (3 pages)
- intercultural negiotiations p. 338-340 (2 pages)
- Learning intercultural communication p. 358-362 (4 pages)
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Arne |
9 |
25.02 |
Intercultural Communication |
Lynton, Nandani & Thøgersen, Kirsten H: How China Transforms an Executive's Mind, Organizational Dynamics, Vol. 35, No. 2, pp. 170–181, Elsevier Inc., 2006
Bennet, M.J. & Bennet, J.M.: Developing intercultural sensitivity,
Landis, D., Bennett, J., Bennett, M. (red.): Handbook of Intercultural Training, pp. 147-165, 2003 |
John |
10 |
03.03 |
International Design & Usability |
Van Dorn, Nils: Communicating Effectively in the Chinese Market. BusinessForum China (www.bfchina.de), 4pp. 2007.
http://www.bfchina.de/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=209&contentid=203&Itemid=27
Marcus, Aaron: User-interface design and China: a great leap forward.
Interactions 10(1), pp. 21-25. ACM 2003.
Coronado, Jose & Livermore, Carrie: Going global with the product design process, Interactions..., nov-dec 2001, pp. 21-26 , 2001
Hertzum, Morten et al: Usability constructs: A Cross-Cultural Study of How Users and Developers Experience Their Use of Information Systems, N. Aykin (Ed.): Usability and Internationalization, Part I, HCII 2007, LNCS 4559, pp. 317–326, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2007.
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John |
11 |
10.03 |
Usability test planning |
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John |
12 |
17.03 |
Distributed Development |
Lindqvist, Edvin & Lundell, Björn & Lings, Brian: Distributed Development in an Intra-national Intra-organisational Context: An Experience Rep, GSD'06 Shanghai, China, pp. 80-86, ACM, 2006
Herbsleb, James D. & Grinter, Rebecca E.: Splitting the Organisation and Integrating the Code: Conway's Law Revisited, ICSE ‘99, Los Angeles CA, pp. 85-95, ACM, 1999
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John
Arne
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Easter Break |
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14 |
31.03 |
Global Collaboration
+ Evaluation of design and architecture sent from China |
Herbsleb, James D. & Paulish, Daniel J. & Bass, Matthew: Global Software Development at Siements: Experience from Nine Projects, ICSE’05, St. Louis, Missouri, USA, pp. 524-533, ACM, 2005
Lings, Lundess, Ågerfalk & Fitzgerald: A Reference Model for Successful Distributed Development of Software Systems, International Conference on Global Software Engineering (ICGSE'07), pp. 130-139. IEEE, 2007
Supplementary literature:
Herbsleb, James D.: Global Software Engineering: The Future of Socio- technical Coordination. Future of Software Engineering (FOSE'07), pp. 188-198. IEEE Computer Society, 2007
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Arne
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15 |
07.04 |
Midterm online conference |
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Marie
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16 |
14.04 |
Software development outsourcing |
Cusumano, Michael & MacCormack, Alan & Kemerer, Chris F. & Crandall, William: Software Development Worldwide: The State of the Practice, IEEE SOFTWARE, pp. 1-8, IEEE Computer Society, 2003
Krishna, S. & Sahay, Sundeep & Walsham, Geoff : Managing Cross-Cultural Issues in Global Software Outsourcing, Vol. 47, No. 4, pp. 62-66. Communications of the ACM, 2004
Norman Matloff: Offshoring:
What Can Go Wrong?, July- August 2005, IT Pro, pp. 39-45, IEEE, 2005
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Arne
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17 |
21.04 |
Supervision |
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John
Arne |
18 |
28.04 |
Supervision |
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John
Arne |
19 |
05.05 |
Reflection on process |
Gotel,Olly & Scharff, Christelle & Seng, Sopheap & Kulkarni, Vidya & Long Chrea Neak: Introducing Global Supply Chains into software Engineering Education, B. Meyer and M. Joseph (Eds.): SEAFOOD 2007, pp. 44–58, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2007
Weiberg, Randy S. & Gan Kok Siew, Benjamin: Teaching “Global Project Management” with Distributed Team Projects. In C. Montgomerie & J. Seale (Eds.), Proceedings of World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications 2007 (pp. 1954-1959). Chesapeake, VA: AACE (Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education).
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John
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21 |
19.05 |
Supervision |
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John
Arne |
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