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D. Conclusion Validity<br />

Conclusion validity is concerned with the relationship<br />

between the treatment and the outcome. We acknowledge that<br />

the small number of data points is not ideal from the statistical<br />

point of vi ew. Small sample sizes, especially when the key<br />

experimental unit is at th e team level, are a k nown problem<br />

difficult to overcome.<br />

VII. CONCLUSION AND FUTURE WORK<br />

In this paper, we executed an experiment in order to<br />

investigate both the adaptive and prescriptive approaches in the<br />

context of FTS software development. We found that the usage<br />

of adaptive approaches increases the speed, but they do not<br />

always enhance accuracy and quality of the work done by<br />

distributed sites. We believe that this experiment has important<br />

findings that contribute to the literature on global software<br />

engineering and follow the sun software development.<br />

For future work, we suggest new studies in order to<br />

replicate this experiment with more participants and different<br />

shifts scenarios (e.g. some time-zone overlap). We also suggest<br />

the replication of this experiment with industry participants.<br />

ACKNOWLEDGMENT<br />

The authors are funded by the PDTI program, funded by<br />

Dell Computers of Brazil Ltd. (Law 8.248/91). The third author<br />

is also funded by Ci&T and CNPq (projects 483125/2010-5<br />

and 550130/2011-0. The authors thank all the students who<br />

participated in the experiment and Alberto Espinosa, Ning Nan<br />

and Erran Carmel for providing us the material used in their<br />

experiment.<br />

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