Global software development (GSD) is considered as the coordinated activities of software development that are geographically and temporally distributed. The management of architectural knowledge, specifically, architectural design decisions (ADDs), becomes important in GSD due to the geographical, temporal, and cultural challenges in global environments. Based on our previous work on ADD manag...

Global Software Development (GSD) projects are passing through different boundaries of a company, country and even in other continents where time zone differs between both sites. Beside many benefits of such development, research declared plenty of negative impacts on these GSD projects. It is important to understand problems which may lie during the execution of GSD project with different time...

Global software development (GSD) is an increasing trend in the field of software engineering. It can be considered as coordinated activities of software development that are geographically and temporally distributed. The management of architectural knowledge, specifically, architectural design decisions (ADDs), becomes important in GSD due to the geographical, temporal, and cultural challenges...

Global software development (GSD) outsourcing is a modern business strategy for producing high quality software at low cost. Most of the problems in Global software development (GSD) occur due to the lack of communication between stakeholders, time zone issues, cultural differences, etc. In this paper, our main emphasis will be to improve the Value-based requirement elicitation (VBRE) steps in ...

Necessitated by economic and market forces, the last two decades have witnessed a quantum leap in global dispersion of software development work, signifying the emergence of Global Software Development (GSD) as an important driver of business value. Whilst most companies have jumped on the GSD bandwagon, evidence suggests that firms do not (or are not able to) systematically harness the full po...

Global Software Development (GSD) considers the coordinated activity of software development that is not localized and central but geographically distributed. To support coordination among sites, usually it is aimed to adopt the same development and execution platform. Unfortunately, adopting a single platform might not be always possible due to technical or organizational constraints of the di...

Our main goal is to review the problems, solutions, and open issues in global software development (GSD), in which the software development activities are distributed across multiple sites. First we introduce the reasons why GSD is becoming more and more prevalent. Then we outline the issues created or amplified by GSD and illustrate various effects it has on a software project. Finally, we sum...

Global software development (GSD) is now-a-days pervasive in software industry aiming to develop global standard software through geographically distributed skilled teams in minimum time and cost. In order to meet the demand for green software production and frequent changes in requirements of the clients, GSD developers have revamped traditional methods and trying to incorporate green principl...

Global Software Development (GSD) is becoming increasingly prevalent, with software development teams being distributed around the world and working in collaboration with partner companies despite geographic and time differences. The main advantage of GSD which makes it attractive is the greater availability of human resources at lower costs. However, there are several disadvantages which are c...

Both Agile Software Development (ASD) and Global Software Development (GSD) are 21 century trends in the software industry. Many studies are reported in the literature wherein software companies have applied an agile method or practice GSD. Given that effort estimation plays a remarkable role in software project management, how do companies perform effort estimation when they use agile method i...