As part of globalization, offshoring and outsourcing, many software organizations are adopting global software development (GSD). Studies, however, show that among the top ten risk factors to GSD, four of them is related to change management and developer-user cooperation. In order to embrace change and to foster close cooperation between developers and the users, state-of-the art within softwa...

In global software development (GSD) projects, all team members (e.g., project manager, quality assurance, technical leader, and developer) can benefit from being aware on the project status regarding their area of responsibility. While there is considerable attention on providing project overview data and tool support to the project manager, there is only weak support for the other roles, resu...

Context There is extensive interest in global software development (GSD) which has led to a large number of papers reporting on GSD. A number of systematic literature reviews (SLRs) have attempted to aggregate information from individual studies. Objective: We wish to investigate GSD SLR research with a focus on discovering what research has been conducted in the area and to determine if the SL...

Software development nowadays is more and more using global ways of development instead of normal development environment where development occurs in one location. This paper is aimed to propose a requirement engineering framework to support Global Software Development environment with regards to all requirement engineering activities from elicitation to finally managing requirement change. Glo...

NTEREST IN GLOBAL SOFTWARE DEVELopment (GSD) is rapidly growing as the software industry experiences increasing globalization of business (Herbsleb & Moitra, 2001). In GSD, stakeholders from different national and organizational cultures and time zones are involved in developing software (Damian, 2002), and tasks at various stages of the software lifecycle may be separated and implemented at di...

Context: The context of this paper is Global Software Development (GSD) which is a current trend concerning the development of software in a distributed manner throughout different countries. This paradigm has several advantages, but unfortunately there are a number of challenges that hinder projects’ successful development. Objective: The main goal of this paper is to discover which factors af...

Current IT markets exhibit many constraints (e.g. budget, staff shortage, etc.). These constraints force IT companies to increase productivity using globally distributed manpower. Literature shows that global software development (GSD) indeed raises productivity but reduces communication and collaboration between teams. Consequently, the risk of failure increases. To ease communication and coll...

Inter-organizational Global Software Development (GSD) has become a common reality for many projects. It is well established that distance makes difficult to interact and to cooperate effectively. Scrum, a consolidated Agile methodology, emphasizes communication, reduces coordination and control overhead and has been increasingly used in a distributed fashion. Successfully planning and managing...

We describe a hybrid computer simulation model of the software development process that is specifically architected to study alternative ways to configure global software development (GSD) projects, including phase-based, module-based, and follow-the-sun allocation strategies. The model is a hybrid system dynamics and discrete-event model. In this paper, test cases have been developed for each ...