2009
DOI: 10.1155/2009/710971
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Challenges and Improvements in Distributed Software Development: A Systematic Review

Abstract: Distributed Software Development (DSD) has recently evolved, resulting in an increase in the available literature. Organizations now have a tendency to make greater development efforts in more attractive zones. The main advantage of this lies in a greater availability of human resources in decentralized zones at less cost. There are, however, some disadvantages which are caused by the distance that separates the development teams. Coordination and communication become more difficult as the software components … Show more

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“…There is, however, a common denominator, and that is the lack of face-to-face communication. This makes coordination and communication more difficult, which in turn can affect project control and product quality [14]. In response to these challenges, a number of practices for distributed teams employing agile methods have been proposed, e.g.…”
Section: Agile Software Developmentmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…There is, however, a common denominator, and that is the lack of face-to-face communication. This makes coordination and communication more difficult, which in turn can affect project control and product quality [14]. In response to these challenges, a number of practices for distributed teams employing agile methods have been proposed, e.g.…”
Section: Agile Software Developmentmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…This movement is driven by several factors, such as the need to optimise the avenues for creating high-quality software products by highly qualified teams [9]. Furthermore, the DSD suitable for the organisations involved have distributed geographical locations.…”
Section: Distributed Software Development (Dsd)mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…On the other hand, there have also been some research and industrial experiences related to adopting agile software development for distributed software development (DSD) projects or global development projects (GSD) [10,11]. However, using the agile approach in DSD projects involves many challenges and issues [9], such as the lack of face-to-face interactive communication between people at distributed sites. In this paper, we focus on those organisations that develop and provide software products for different distributed customers, then customise those products.…”
Section: Distributed Agile Development (Dad)mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The most conveyed benefits include lower costs (e.g., [6]; [7]; [8]; [9]), greater availability of human resources and multi-skilled workforce (e.g. [10]; [11]; [12]; [13]), and shorter time-to-market cycles (e.g. [11], [14]; [15]).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…One of the challenges for GSD is quality and its management [12]. According to [17], quality usually is not directly affected by the distributed nature of GSD projects; however, some papers describe indirect effects of distributed collaboration on quality [18], [19].…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%