TY - JOUR
T1 - Requirements change management challenges of global software development
T2 - An empirical investigation
AU - Akbar, Muhammad Azeem
AU - Naveed, Wishal
AU - Alsanad, Abeer Abdulaziz
AU - Alsuwaidan, Lulwah
AU - Alsanad, Ahmed
AU - Gumaei, Abdu
AU - Shafiq, Muhammad
AU - Riaz, Muhammad Tanveer
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.. All rights reserved.
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - The software organizations rapidly adopting global software development (GSD) to gain the economic and strategic benefits. Besides, GSD faces many challenges that mainly concerned with the requirements change management (RCM). This study aims to identify and empirically validate the factors that can negatively influence the RCM process in GSD. To this end, literature review and questionnaire survey were conducted for the investigation and validation of RCM challenges. A total of 31 RCM challenges were identified. We have further classified the identified challenges in organization types, organization size and based on experts’ opinions with the aim to provide a clear understanding of the RCM process and its challenges to the practitioners. Based on these identified challenges, we believe that this study can provide a framework for tackling problems associated with RCM activities in GSD environment, which is significant to success and progression of GSD organizations.
AB - The software organizations rapidly adopting global software development (GSD) to gain the economic and strategic benefits. Besides, GSD faces many challenges that mainly concerned with the requirements change management (RCM). This study aims to identify and empirically validate the factors that can negatively influence the RCM process in GSD. To this end, literature review and questionnaire survey were conducted for the investigation and validation of RCM challenges. A total of 31 RCM challenges were identified. We have further classified the identified challenges in organization types, organization size and based on experts’ opinions with the aim to provide a clear understanding of the RCM process and its challenges to the practitioners. Based on these identified challenges, we believe that this study can provide a framework for tackling problems associated with RCM activities in GSD environment, which is significant to success and progression of GSD organizations.
KW - Challenges
KW - Empirical investigations
KW - Requirements change management
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85102824706&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/ACCESS.2020.3035829
DO - 10.1109/ACCESS.2020.3035829
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85102824706
SN - 2169-3536
VL - 8
SP - 203070
EP - 203085
JO - IEEE Access
JF - IEEE Access
ER -