Investigation of Time Delay Factors in Global Software Development

Abstract

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 im portant to understand problems which may lie during the execution of GSD project with different time zones. This research pr oject discussed and provided different issues related to time delays in GSD projects. In this paper, authors investigated some of the time d elay factors which usually lie in GSD projects with different time zon es. This investigation is done through systematic review of literature. Furthermore, the practices to overcome these delay factors which have already been reported in literature and GSD or ganizations are also explored through literature survey and case st udies.