Abstract
Currently, software systems are becoming an essential part of business in the world. The majority of the software production companies are adopting Global Software Development (GSD) and it is incessantly getting faster. Most of the software development organisations are trying to globalize their study worldwide in order to get the different benefits. However, GSD is not a simple task and the organizations face various challenges. But communication is a major issue and it becomes more complicated during the Requirements Change Management (RCM) in the context of GSD. This research will explore communication risks, their causes, negative effects and those mitigation practices which can be used to allay communication risks during the RCM process. A Systematic Literature Review (SLR) protocol has been developed and the implementation of the protocol is in process. The SLR protocol provides in depth and more comprehensive results than common literature review.
Highlights
Most of the software organizations are globalizing their software development activities (Khan et al, 2012)
Nowadays Global Software Development (GSD) is the necessity of software development organizations
Some of the researchers stated that 3 Cs-Coordination, Communication and Control are the three main factors for the failure of global software projects (Bass et al, 2009; Herbsleb, 2007; Herbsleb and Mockus, 2003; Herbsleb et al, 2005) .Due to these three factors GSD has become risky and more challenging (Carmel, 1999; Korkala and Abrahamsson, 2007)
Summary
Most of the software organizations are globalizing their software development activities (Khan et al, 2012). In GSD the organizations performed the software development under various boundaries such as temporal, geographical and socio-cultural distances (Helena et al, 2006; Smite et al, 2008). Requirements Change Management (RCM) process is one of the most serious activities and it poses significant difficulties with distributed software development teams (Sengupta et al, 2006). Communication is one of the major issues during RCM in global software projects due to temporal, geographical and cultural distances (Casey and Richardson, 2008; Huang and Trauth, 2007; Moe and Šmite, 2008). RQ2: What are the recommendations that can help GSD organization to avoid the communication risks during RCM?
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