A Framework for Overcoming Supplier Related Threats in Global Projects

Reporting Empirical Research in Global Software Engineering: A Classification Scheme

“…For the past few years studies from supplier [14,15] and global software team [10,16] perspective start to emerge. However, because of different goals, practices and recommendations on how to survive global projects among these studies may differ.…”

Designing Project Management for Global Software Development

“…We here present the most commonly reported challenges for GSD in these processes. The basic problems in communication across distances include language problems and misunderstandings [10], less or no overlap in working hours hindering communication [3], [9], lack of natural communication channels [11] despite the technological progress, fewer or no face-to-face meetings due to the travel costs [3], [12], and delay of communication feedback and increased risk of misunderstandings on the often utilized asynchronous channels [3], [13]. All this makes all communication more demanding for the participants [14] and thus leads to less communication [15] and especially less informal communication [16,17].…”

“…All this makes all communication more demanding for the participants [14] and thus leads to less communication [15] and especially less informal communication [16,17]. If (when) sociocultural differences between the on-and offshore organizations exist, the lack of communication (and face-to-face meetings) will hinder the development of personal relations [12], [18], shared knowledge [10], [19,20] and common practice [21] that could have helped overcome the problems. Likewise, the development of mutual understanding and common working culture [9,10], [15], [22] that could have eased difficulties such as misunderstandings [3], conflicts [3] and lack of trust [21], [23] stalls.…”

A Framework of Challenges and Key Factors for Applying Agile Methods for the Development and Customisation of Software Products in Distributed Projects

“…Šmite and Borzovs [12] conducted a study to investigate the impact of risk management on GSD, which is called global risk. In addition, they designed a framework to address the key risk management in GSD across organisational and cultural boundaries.…”