An ANP Approach Towards Analysis of Socio- Culture Distance Risks During Control of GSD Projects

The emerging tendency of today’s business is automation of business process in order to optimize different parameters like access to market, capturing market, consideration of global opportunities etc. This whole business process can be automated and optimized using software. Software is core component of today’s business process. Many traditional approaches exist to develop software but Global Software Development (GSD) is new paradigm in this era. The core concept behind GSD is to exploit different time zones, diverse skill set and access to market. This new paradigm also brings emerging challenges to manage and develop software projects i.e. communication, coordination and control. This work proposes a framework based on multi-criteria evaluation methodology for managers and software development experts to maximize their potential in positioning their projects in terms of the socio-cultural risks during controlling GSD projects.