The development teams who are geographically spread, culturally mixed and mainly depend on information and communication technology (ICT) for communication is defined as a global virtual teams (GVTs). Despite the advancement of technologies, achieving the efficient performance of GVTs remains a challenge. The reviewed literature has highlighted the importance of training and development, organi...

Coordination of interdependent tasks across geographical, temporal and socio-cultural boundaries has been identified as a critical antecedent to global software development (GSD) team performance. Since GSD teams are increasingly required to achieve software development agility and respond to changing business requirements, conventional plan-driven software development methods become inadequate...

Global software development (GSD), as a mode of information systems development, surfaces various challenges and benefits that are not always present in co-located teams. A psychological contract reflects the written and unwritten expectations, or obligations, of collaborating parties in a transaction. This paper uncovers a set of candidate obligations that make up the psychological contract of...

Global software Development (GSD) is a popular software development setting that aims at developing software at low cost with geographically distributed teams. Knowledge Management (KM) is an important issue in GSD. Plethora of research is available to solve GSD issues with Knowledge management practices (KMPs). Evidence about the effectiveness of these practices is scattered among different st...

Requirements-related problems are reported to be the main reason in failures of global software development (GSD) projects. There is not much work done to improve requirements practices for GSD projects. In this paper, we report results of a study conducted in an ongoing project whose aim is to develop a framework for the requirements engineering process of global software development projects....

The emerging tendency of today’s business is automation of business process in order to optimize different parameters like access to market, capturing market, consideration of global opportunities etc. This whole business process can be automated and optimized using software. Software is core component of today’s business process. Many traditional approaches exist to develop software but Global...

The global software industry emerged in the wake of the first computers over 60 years ago. Computing was a global industry from its earliest days initially in the US and the UK. Today the industry touches all aspects of our modern lives in all corners of the globe. Increasingly this global industry also produces its products using globally dispersed and culturally diverse teams of scientists, e...

Global software development (GSD) is struggling with issues related to globally distributed work, such as coordination, maintaining awareness, and knowledge sharing. Open Source Software, however, appears to have overcome these issues and can be a source of knowledge for advancing GSD. This position paper examines existing CSCW literature related to collaborative practice in OSS to identify are...

We empirically explored the implication of hard decisions in the context of the management of global software development (GSD) teams. We hypothesized and empirically tested our belief that hard decision making in conventional development projects is very similar to GSD and differences arise from the nature of the relationship and the ranking of issues. Findings from a Delphi study illustrated ...

Global software development (GSD) is a software development model where the development effort spans across distributed locations. Although GSD has gained vast popularity due to its economical benefits, it faces various challenges as a result of cultural, temporal and spatial distances. Cloud computing is becoming the norm for consuming computing resources due to its economies of scale. While t...