Paper Info
Title
Towards the Guidelines for Requirements Change Management in Global Software Development: Client-Vendor Perspective
Abstract
Currently, being deployed by organizations to develop high-quality software at a low cost, global software development (GSD) faces many challenges that make development activities more complex. These GSD challenges are mainly concerned with requirements to change management (RCM). RCM plays a key role in the successful execution of software projects. The objective of this paper is to identify the best practices of the RCM process by adopting a systematic literature review (SLR) and validate them using questionnaire survey with industry experts. A total of 46 best practices were identified through SLR and validated with industry experts. We have further classified the identified practices in the domain of client and vendor GSD organizations with the aim to provide a clear understanding of the RCM best practices in the context of both types of GSD organizations (client, vendor). Moreover, we have conducted a comparison analysis between SLR and questionnaire survey data and found a moderate positive correlation in the ranks of both data sets (r(s) = 0.522, p=0.003). In addition, the criticality of the identified best practices was assessed using the criteria of a practice having frequency >= 50%. The findings of this paper provide a framework that could help the GSD organizations to address the problems related to RCM in GSD environment.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2918552
IEEE ACCESS
Keywords
Field
DocType
Global software development (GSD),requirements change management (RCM),best practices,systematic literature review (SLR),empirical investigation,client,vendor
Computer science,Engineering management,Computer network,Vendor,Global software development,Requirements change management
Journal
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
7
2169-3536
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Muhammad Azeem Akbar132.06
Jun Sang24012.62
Nasrullah3121.57
Arif Ali Khan44717.15
Muhammad Shafiq511434.55
Fazal-e-Amin6212.72