PROJECTS
   

Project
Acronym: DSD 
Name: Distributed Software Development 
Project status: From: 2003-05-15 To: 2013-12-31 (Completed)
Type (Programme): BILAT 
Project funding: -
International partner
Organisation Name: Mälardalen University, School of Innovation, Design and Engineering 
Organisation adress: Mälardalens högskola, IDT, Box 883, SE-721 23 Västerås, Sweden 
Organisation country: Švedska 
Contact person name: Crnković, Ivica 
Contact person email: Email 
Croatian partner
Organisation name: Fakultet elektrotehnike i računarstva 
Organisation address: Unska 3, 10000 Zagreb 
Contact person name: Žagar, Mario
Contact person tel:
+385 1 6129 617  Contact person fax:  
Contact person e-mail: Email 
Short description of project
Development of information and communication technologies (ICT) is based on the concentration of knowledge and skills, and as such must not be limited by time or geographical distance. The term of global software development has been present in the field for the last ten years and is based on distributed software development, regardless of geographical (kilometres, countries) and time distances (time zones) of the teams involved in the development of the same product. Apart from the familiar problems characteristic of «centralised» program engineering, in distributed software development there are additional problems in the establishment of communication between the distributed teams, caused by differences in professional cultures, languages etc. Cooperation between Mälardalen University (MdH), Västerås, Sweden, and FER Zagreb, Croiatia resulted in a DSD (Distributed Software Development) course project, beginning in the academic year 2003/04 In this course teaching staff and students from both faculties are included in joint instruction delivery and development of student projects. 
Short description of the task performed by Croatian partner
The tasks in the project are threefold: to examine the possibilities and evaluate the risks of maintaining distributed instruction by using available communication resources, to evaluate the feasibility and risks related to the development of student projects which involve simultaneous participation of teams from both faculties and to valuate the advantages and disadvantages of the existing virtual learning environment, suggest improvements through project tasks for the next generation of students. 


   

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