On the Risks and Safeguards for Requirements Engineering in Global Software Development: Systematic Literature Review and Quantitative Assessment

Nicolás, Joaquín; Gea, Juan M. Carrillo de; Nicolas, Bernabe; Fernández-Alemán, José Luis; Toval, Ambrosio

doi:10.1109/access.2018.2874096

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“…Many systematic reviews have been conducted within the scope of GSD. Some of the most recent systematic literature reviews and mapping studies in this domain have identified solutions, challenges or research gaps in terms of software architecting, 10 knowledge sharing, 21–23 agile practices, 12,24 requirements risks and change management, 25–29 cultural differences 28,29 or process improvement, 30 and among others. Although some of these studies address aspects that could indirectly be related to GSD governance, none of them directly addresses governance issues.…”

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Global software development governance: Challenges and solutions

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J Software Evolu Process

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Global software development (GSD) has become a rising software development model in the last few years. Although much research has been performed in terms of GSD management, GSD governance research is scarce at the present time and presents multiple challenges that need to be addressed. In this paper, a systematic mapping study has been conducted, the aim of which was to discover the main issues dealt with in GSD governance literature, as well as to point out the particular research gaps that are still present in this domain. This allowed us to find out new challenges to be addressed, along with possible solutions to these. The results reveal a lack of research in key aspects such as tools, culture, people, and information, all of which provides a great opportunity for future approaches while also highlighting new opportunities in GSD governance research.

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Global software development governance: Challenges and solutions

Manjavacas

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Ruíz

et al. 2020

J Software Evolu Process

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“…The authors reported that human resource management is an important factor that affects communication and coordination in GSD. In contrast, Nicolás et al [40] identified 25 challenges faced during requirement engineering in GSD. The authors presented the mitigation practices to avoid the explored challenges.…”

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A Study on Mitigating the Communication and Coordination Challenges During Requirements Change Management in Global Software Development

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Global Software Development (GSD) is widely used by software development organizations to ensure the development of a cost-effective software product. GSD has now become a common engineering practice adopted by a significant number of multinational software development organizations, and even individuals (freelancers) are seeking numerous benefits including low development cost, highly skilled workers, and access to better development ideas. However, communication and coordination challenges remain a prominent research issue in the GSD context, while performing different project-related activities especially for Requirements Change Management (RCM). As a result, improper communication and coordination during RCM require additional time, cost, and development resources. Thus, it is of vital importance to ensure proper communication and coordination before initiating a software project. Inspired by this, current work aims at exploring and mitigating the communication and coordination challenges during RCM in the GSD context. To accomplish the targeted research objective, we performed a tertiary study to provide a landscape of the challenges that occurred during RCM in the context of GSD. Based on the performed study, we found 62 communication and 14 coordination challenges. In total, 107 mitigation strategies are explored and reported that effectively address the categorized sub-challenges of communication and coordination. Moreover, we proposed a conceptual model useful to address the communication and coordination challenges for the RCM process in GSD. Furthermore, we consulted the domain experts for the validation of the proposed conceptual model. Based on the promising results, we believe that this work supports the project managers in managing the cost and time-related issues in the GSD context. Consequently, the proposed conceptual model would help in optimally utilizing the scared software development resources. INDEX TERMSGlobal software development; Requirements change management; Communication and coordination challenges; Mitigation strategy; Tertiary study. I.

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“…In Distributed Software Development (DSD), the physical separation of software stakeholders, including geographical distance, temporal distance, and cultural differences, are the key barriers to manage the new requirements [36]. We have conducted a tertiary study in which 27 Systematic Literature Review (SLR) studies were analyzed, and 75 communication and coordination challenges were discovered along with 107 mitigation practices.…”

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A Conceptual Model to Address the Communication and Coordination Challenges During Requirements Change Management in Global Software Development

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Global Software Development (GSD) is expanding quickly all around the world because of the various advantages offered to the customers, vendors, and other stakeholders involved in software project development. However, GSD is not a simple process as it faces multiple challenges that arise due to the mismanagement of the communication and coordination process. Meanwhile, Requirements Change Management (RCM) is a tedious and high resource-consuming process in GSD, which is further negatively affected by the poorly managed communication and coordination mechanisms. Multiple research studies have presented various theoretical and conceptual models to overcome the challenges during RCM in the GSD context. However, the existing methodologies lack in handling the communication and coordination challenges during the RCM process in the GSD context. In the literature, the researchers have concluded that a conceptual model can effectively reduce the communication and coordination challenges during RCM in GSD. Inspired by this, the current work aims at proposing a conceptual model to overcome and mitigate the communication and coordination challenges, while ensuring the effective requirement changes at offshore software development sites. Moreover, it would help the multiple stakeholders in understanding and managing the necessary resources before initiating the RCM process. To validate the proposed conceptual model, we have conducted a questionnaire-based survey to procure the results from the industrial experts working in the GSD domain. After analyzing the obtained results, we found that the proposed conceptual model is effective to handle the communication and coordination challenges up to 87%. In addition, almost 87% of the experts have agreed upon the correctness, identified challenges, and the mitigation practices in the proposed conceptual model necessary to improve the RCM process in the GSD context. Furthermore, it was observed that 75% of the experts also agreed upon the practical implementation of the proposed conceptual model in the software development industry to observe the heuristic performance of the proposed conceptual model. INDEX TERMSGlobal software development; Requirements change management; Communication challenges; Mitigation practices; Conceptual model. I.

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On the Risks and Safeguards for Requirements Engineering in Global Software Development: Systematic Literature Review and Quantitative Assessment

Cited by 31 publications

References 77 publications

Global software development governance: Challenges and solutions

Global software development governance: Challenges and solutions

A Study on Mitigating the Communication and Coordination Challenges During Requirements Change Management in Global Software Development

A Conceptual Model to Address the Communication and Coordination Challenges During Requirements Change Management in Global Software Development

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