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Taxonomies in software engineering: A Systematic mapping study and a revised taxonomy development method

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Effort estimation in agile software development: a systematic literature review

Subjective estimation techniques, e.g. expert judgment-based techniques, planning poker or the use case points method are the one used the most in agile effort estimation studies, thus suggesting numerous possible avenues for future work.
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Effort Estimation in Global Software Development: A Systematic Literature Review

The results suggest that there is room to improve the current state of the art on effort estimation in GSD, as there are evidences that the colocated approaches do not fit to GSD.
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Software Architects in Large-Scale Distributed Projects: An Ericsson Case Study

Investigation of how architects at Ericsson were organized, their roles and responsibilities, and the effort they spent guarding and governing a large-scale legacy product developed by teams at multiple locations suggests that the effort architects spend designing architecture, guarding its integrity and evolvability, and mentoring development teams is directly related to team maturity.
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Bloom's taxonomy in software engineering education: A systematic mapping study

The state of the art on the usage of Bloom's taxonomy in SE education is reported, identified by conducted a systematic mapping study, and the results clearly point out the usefulness of Bloom’sTaxonomy in the SE education context.
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Onboarding software developers and teams in three globally distributed legacy projects: A multi‐case study

A multi‐case study to investigate the onboarding of software developers/teams, associated challenges, and areas for further improvement in 3 globally distributed legacy projects, employing Bauer's model for onboarding.
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Effort Estimation in Co-located and Globally Distributed Agile Software Development: A Comparative Study

Similar techniques and size metrics have been used to estimate effort by both co-located and distributed agile teams, but the main difference is with regard to the factors that are considered as important cost drivers.
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An extended global software engineering taxonomy

The extended taxonomy can help both researchers and practitioners by providing dimensions that can enable the description of different GSE contexts in a more comprehensive way; this can facilitate the understanding, comparison and aggregation of GSE-related findings.
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Calculating the Extra Costs and the Bottom-Line Hourly Cost of Offshoring

Offshoring of complex ongoing products does not seem to lead to short-term bottom-line economic gains, and may not even reach breakeven within five years, according to an empirical case study conducted in a large international corporation.
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Software Practitioners' Information Needs and Sources: A Survey Study

This study aims to identify the information needs, the frequency of their occurrence, the sources of information used to satisfy the needs, and the perception of practitioners regarding the usefulness of the sources currently used.
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