A number of companies have employed Global Software Development (GSD) methodology as a useful tool for their software development practices. GSD is a contractual relationship between client and vendor organizations in which a client outsources all or some part of its software development activities to a vendor. The vendor in return provides the agreed services in lieu of certain amount of remun...

Global software development (GSD) projects are often largescale, tend to be complex, and have an increased risk of failure. An understanding of common GSD risks can help project managers control the risks and thus increase the likelihood of project success. We extend an earlier tertiary GSD systematic literature review (SLR) to extract data from the SLR studies identified to discover, 1) what a...

Software Configuration Management (SCM) techniques have been considered the entry point to rigorous software engineering, where multiple organizations cooperate in a decentralized mode to save resources, ensure the quality of the diversity of software products, and manage corporate information to get a better return of investment. The incessant trend of Global Software Development (GSD) and the...

Because of the distance between the dispersed development locations, Global Software development (GSD) is confronted with challenges regarding communication, coordination and control of the development work. At the same time, agile software development is strongly built upon communication between engineers and has proven its benefits, although, mostly on one single site. As such, it might be ad...

Today’s globalization of software development has its advantages, but also its drawbacks. Software project managers often lead the production of new software versions and their release on the market. This paper analyses the main challenges faced by software product managers in release planning with regard to the adoption of Global Software Development (GSD) practices for developing packaged sof...

Global Software Development (GSD) is a new challenge for software developers to reach mobility in resources, obtain extra knowledge, speed timeto-market and increase operational efficiency. However, the new trend is followed by specific risks and needs a deeper analysis for successful risk overcoming. This paper gives an insight into a research on GSD project performance improvement in one of t...

Collaborative development in software engineering challenges the involved partners in different ways. This work gives a brief overview of methods, tools and environments that are used in common Global Software Development (GSD). Each of the described tools try to enhance collaboration among distributed developers. First, known classification schemes for tools in GSD are summarized. Second, one ...

Many successful free/open source software (FOSS) projects start with the premise that their contributors are rarely colocated, and as a consequence, these projects are cases of global software development (GSD). This article describes how the GNOME Project, a large FOSS project, has tried to overcome the disadvantages of GSD. The main goal of GNOME is to create a GUI desktop for Unix systems, a...

In this paper, an integrative conceptual model of internal and external factors influencing the success of global software development (GSD) projects is proposed. Its intention is to provide a holistic view on factors contributing to success in GSD projects as discussed in the literature. Four external factors (cultural differences, language differences, geographical distance, and time zone dif...

Global software development is an inexorable trend in the software industry. The impact of the trend in conventional software development can be found in many of its aspects. One of them is task or work package allocation. Task allocation was traditionally driven by resource competency and availability but GSD introduces new complexities to this process including time-zones differences, costs a...