Prioritization-Based Taxonomy of Global Software Development Challenges: A FAHP Based Analysis

Muhammad Azeem Akbar; Ahmed Alsanad; Sajjad Mahmood; Abdulrahman Alothaim

doi:10.1109/ACCESS.2021.3063116

IEEE Access (Jan 2021)

Prioritization-Based Taxonomy of Global Software Development Challenges: A FAHP Based Analysis

Muhammad Azeem Akbar,
Ahmed Alsanad,
Sajjad Mahmood,
Abdulrahman Alothaim

Affiliations

Muhammad Azeem Akbar: ORCiD; Department of Information Technology, Lappeenranta University of Technology, Lappeenranta, Finland
Ahmed Alsanad: ORCiD; Department of Information Technology, Lappeenranta University of Technology, Lappeenranta, Finland
Sajjad Mahmood: ORCiD; Department of Information and Computer Science, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia
Abdulrahman Alothaim: ORCiD; Department of Information Systems, College of Computer and Information Sciences, STC’s Artificial Intelligence Chair, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2021.3063116
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 9
pp. 37961 – 37974

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Global Software Development (GSD) continues to receive interest from software industry due to potential economic benefits. Management of GSD projects is not straightforward due to involvement of different geographically distributed teams who collaborate to produce a software. The objective of this study is to prioritize the challenges faced by practitioners during management of a GSD project. A questionnaire survey was developed to collect feedback from GSD practitioners about relative importance of 20 challenges reported in literature. Next, the Fuzzy Analytical Hierarchy Process (FAHP) was used to rank the challenges associated with management of GSD projects. The study provides a prioritization-based taxonomy of challenges associated with management of GSD projects. We believe software organizations can use the taxonomy to better plan and manage GSD projects.

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ISSN: 2169-3536 (Online)
Publisher: IEEE
Country of publisher: United States
LCC subjects: Technology: Electrical engineering. Electronics. Nuclear engineering
Website: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/RecentIssue.jsp?punumber=6287639

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