Practices of critical challenges during requirements implementation in global software development:A systematic literature review
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https://doi.org/10.21015/vtse.v12i3.1735Abstract
Context: Finding practices of critical challenges are essential in global software development (GSD).Practices of different challenges have discussed in literature in dispersed form that need a proper method to make them useful.
Objective: To find out the practices of critical challenges in GSD. New practices helps team to work collaboratively with new products and features and to improve the overall quality of the development process. Some challenges have different background with unique practices which can be find out through a proper process.
Method: Systematic literature review (SLR) is used to find out the practices of critical challenges in GSD.
Result: Some common practices are ‘Use of synchronous and asynchronous communication technologies’, ‘Use of modern tools and technologies for GSD’, ‘Frequent/regular agile meetings’, ‘Role of effective management’, ‘Process maturity’, ‘Role of liaison’ and ‘Clear roles and responsibilities of duty’.
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