Global software development is the emerging trend in today's industry. The software development industry is investigating the use of agile development methodologies in distributed environment due to its benefits of better communication and coordination, improved productivity and quality. However research has shown that implementing agile practices in global software development is beneficial and challenging too. Therefore it is necessary to carefully understand the benefits and challenges of combining agile methods in distributed projects. This paper presents the benefits and challenges of applying agile methods in global software development in order to understand it properly.
Global software development (GSD) is becoming a common practice in today's world and it has brought significant changes to software development industries. Majority of the software development companies are adopting Global Software Development (GSD) to get benefits like reduced development cost, better quality product and access to skilled labor etc. However along with various benefits many challenges related to communication, coordination and control are also involved in globally distributed projects as compared to co-located projects. Mitigation of these Global Software Development challenges by themselves is not an easy task. Agile Software Development can be beneficial with respect to GSD as it emphasize on customer collaboration, interaction between individuals, continuous requirement gathering, delivering of the software with in time and budget constraints etc. There are also certain differences accompanied with the benefits of merger between agile and Global software development like communication, cultural and time zone differences, trust and knowledge management. This research study aims to look at current empirical evidence regarding challenges faced in a particular GSD context and mitigation strategies to deal with these challenges both from the perspectives of literature and industry and to develop a framework that helps to mitigate these GSD challenges.
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