TY - JOUR
T1 - Prioritizing Management Success Factors in Offshore Software Development
AU - Akbar, Muhammad Azeem
AU - Mahmood, Sajjad
AU - Khan, Arif Ali
AU - AlSanad, Ahmed
AU - Gumaei, Abdu
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2020, King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals.
PY - 2020/12
Y1 - 2020/12
N2 - A number of organizations have adopted offshore software development (OSD) practices to support their software development in terms of reducing time to market, access to technical talent and lower costs. There is a lack of understandings of the factors associated with successful management of OSD projects. The objective of this study is to identify and prioritize the factors that contribute to successful management of OSD projects. First, we conducted a systematic literature review (SLR) to identify a set of factors that influence successful management of OSD projects. Second, a questionnaire survey was developed based on the findings of the SLR to collect feedback from industry practitioners. Finally, we prioritized the success factors using the analytic hierarchy process. In total, 36 success factors were identified. Findings of the study indicate that standards and procedures, change management engineering and trust building between distributed teams are key factors for the successful execution OSD projects.
AB - A number of organizations have adopted offshore software development (OSD) practices to support their software development in terms of reducing time to market, access to technical talent and lower costs. There is a lack of understandings of the factors associated with successful management of OSD projects. The objective of this study is to identify and prioritize the factors that contribute to successful management of OSD projects. First, we conducted a systematic literature review (SLR) to identify a set of factors that influence successful management of OSD projects. Second, a questionnaire survey was developed based on the findings of the SLR to collect feedback from industry practitioners. Finally, we prioritized the success factors using the analytic hierarchy process. In total, 36 success factors were identified. Findings of the study indicate that standards and procedures, change management engineering and trust building between distributed teams are key factors for the successful execution OSD projects.
KW - Analytic hierarchy process
KW - Offshore software development (OSD)
KW - Project management
KW - Success factors
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U2 - 10.1007/s13369-020-04607-2
DO - 10.1007/s13369-020-04607-2
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85086043441
SN - 2193-567X
VL - 45
SP - 10163
EP - 10184
JO - Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering
JF - Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering
IS - 12
ER -