Risk management in global software development: a position paper
Rafael Prikladnicki · 2004
The number of organizations distributing their software development processes worldwide keeps increasing, and this change is having a profound impact on the way products are conceived, designed, constructed, tested, and delivered to customers. Global software development exhibits certain features that make it fundamentally different from traditional co-located software development. As the global software development involves additional steps and decisions, these steps also impact the risk management process. The goal of this paper is to discuss some of these impacts and to suggest the development of a process taking into account the dispersion, time zone difference, and cultural boundaries, not only in the operational level, but also in the organizations tactical and strategic level. The paper discussion intends to motivate risk identification, analysis and risk mitigation as earlier as possible in global software projects, foster an efficient risk management process.