Systematic literature review on global software development risks in agile methodology

Abstract

Background: The word 'Global Software Development' can be described as the development of software, with development teams spread across different geographical locations. Problem statement: The issues arise when there are gaps in information, workflows or processes, policies and others in the world. Objective: This paper aims to build an understanding of the risk in Global Software Development. Then, to identify category risk in Global Software Development and how Agile can reduce or mitigate their challenges. Method: This review paper using the standard systematic literature review method by Kitchehamm by reviewing and analyzing the relevant state-of -art techniques and approaches in the journal libraries based on the research questions. Results: The findings show that communication in Agile Global Software development is the main risk challenge. Contribution: The contributions of this paper may support the academician to propose and validate an enhanced approach to solve the issues if risk management in Agile GSD environment and assist the practitioners in choosing the most suitable and relevant method based on the requirement of Agile GSD project. This review paper is also focusing on the contribution to the Software Engineering Management and Software Engineering Models and Methods Knowledge Area.