WISE (world wide integrated software engineering): a summary of work in progress

The WISE project, which is a collaboration between the University of Hertfordshire in the UK and Xerox International Software Operations (XISO), is investigating current practice in XISO global distributed project teams with the aim of improving the efficiency of global work practices. We have focused initially on how globally distributed projects operate, and on identifying hypotheses regarding good and bad practice. We are currently using information drawn from several different sources using a number of different approaches to validate our initial findings. The method we have used has provided a large corpus of data and a number of recurring problems and examples of good practice have already been identified.