TY - JOUR U1 - Zeitschriftenartikel, wissenschaftlich - begutachtet (reviewed) A1 - Holtkamp, Philipp A1 - Jokinen, Jussi A1 - Pawlowski, Jan M. T1 - Soft competency requirements in requirements engineering, software design, implementation, and testing JF - Journal of Systems and Software N2 - Global software development changes the requirements in terms of soft competency and increases the complexity of social interaction by including intercultural aspects. While soft competency is often seen as crucial for the success of global software development projects, the concrete competence requirements remain unknown. Internationalization competency represents one of the first attempts to structure and describe the soft competence requirements for global software developers. Based on the diversity of tasks, competence requirements will differ among the various phases of software development. By conducting a survey on the importance of internationalization competences for the different phases of global software development, we identified differences in terms of competence importance and requirements in the phases. “Adaptability” (of one's working style) and “Cultural Awareness” were the main differences. “Cultural Awareness” distinguishes requirements engineering and software design from testing and implementation while “Adaptability” distinguishes implementation and software design from requirements engineering and testing. Y1 - 2015 UR - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0164121214002829?via%3Dihub U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jss.2014.12.010 DO - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jss.2014.12.010 VL - 101 IS - März SP - 136 EP - 146 ER -