Global Software Development, also known as Distributed Software Development, is originally an outsourcing technique in which the development teams hailing from diverse cultural backgrounds and located at distant remote locations participate in the software development efforts and provide their services through a tightly coupled computer networks like Internet. Accurate software cost and effort ...

The cloud computing paradigm offers an innovative and promising vision concerning Information and Communications Technology. Actually, it provides the possibility of improving IT systems management and is changing the way in which hardware and software are designed and purchased. This paper introduces challenges in Global Software Development (GSD) and application of cloud computing platforms a...

Global Software Development (GSD) is a major direction in software engineering. There is interest in applying scrum practices in distributed projects. Project stakeholder distribution in GSD is represented by geographical distance, which generates challenges for communication. This paper is written to evaluate the effect of scrum practices in mitigating geographical distance-based communication...

Context: Global Software Development (GSD) is an emerging trend in today " s software world in which teams are geographically dispersed, either in close proximity or globally. GSD provides certain advantages to development companies like low development cost, access to cheap and skilled labour etc. This type of development is noted as a more risky and challenging as compared to projects develop...

Organizations are increasingly moving to the global software development (GSD) model because of significant benefits that can accrue. However, GSD is fraught with difficulties arising from geographical, temporal and sociocultural distances. The emphasis in the literature to date has typically been on how to overcome these significant challenges associated with GSD. While a number of GSD benefit...

Despite the growing importance of global software development (GSD), a high failure rate of GSD projects is reported in the literature. In order to understand the underlying reasons, the goals of GSD projects and the special characteristics of GSD that might have an influence on these goals have to be identified. This article presents a combined literature and interview study aimed at identifyi...

In this paper, I explain how globally-distributed software development subunits can coordinate their activities with information systems (IS). The basis of this explanation lies in the contemporary proliferation of global software development (GSD) activities which suggests an unexplained reality: that organizations practicing GSD are somehow regulating their IS to cope with increasing and vari...

Software development today has become truly global as many individuals and teams from several geographically distant places collaborate to create software. Many organizations employ such model of work organization striving for the most effective software development in terms of speed, price and quality [1]. Global software development (GSD) approach claims to enable benefits of access to larger...

Organizations are increasingly moving to the global software development (GSD) model because of significant benefits that can accrue. However, GSD is fraught with challenges arising from geographical, temporal and socio-cultural distances. The emphasis in the literature to date has typically been on how to overcome the challenges associated with GSD. While a number of GSD benefits have been wid...

In this paper, I explain how globally distributed software development subunits can coordinate their activities with information systems (IS). The basis of this explanation lies in the contemporary proliferation of global software development (GSD) activities that suggests an unexplained reality: organizations practicing GSD are somehow regulating their IS to cope with increasing and varied unc...