Guest Editors' Introduction: Global Software Development: How Far Have We Come?

  • Authors:
  • Daniela Damian;Deependra Moitra

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Victoria;Infosys Technologies

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Software
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

Global software development efforts have increased in recent years, and such development seemsto have become a business necessity for various reasons, including cost, availability of resources,and the need to locate development closer to customers. However, there's still much to learn aboutglobal software development before the discipline becomes mature. This special issue aims to assessthe gap between the state of the art and the state of the practice. It presents five articles thatcover various aspects of global software development, including knowledge management strategies,distributed software development, requirements engineering, distributed requirements, and managingoffshore collaboration. A Point/Counterpoint department discusses whether global software developmentis indeed a business necessity.This article is part of a special issue on Global Software Development.