WIDEWORKWEB – uma metodologia para o desenvolvimento de aplicações web num cenário global.

Abstract

Communication technologies evolution observed in the last two decades has driven the software community into new development approaches. Projects with geographically distributed teams developing software for culturally heterogeneous markets have become viable, and, with Internet’s growing dissemination, producing web-based applications for the most different purposes has turned into a profitable business. This work presents a detailed analysis about Global Software Development and Web Application Development, pointing out their main advantages and challenges. As indicated in the text, traditional Software Engineering practices do not consider these approaches particularities. Finally, a simple and objective software development methodology is proposed to be used in projects where distributed teams work together producing transactional Web Applications for different markets. The WideWorkWeb methodology is based on Agile Processes principles and on some software companies experiences, and represents an important contribution to everyone interested in these new software development approaches.