TY - JOUR
T1 - Effect of Project Management in Requirements Engineering and Requirements Change Management Processes for Global Software Development
AU - Shafiq, Muhammad
AU - Zhang, Qinghua
AU - Akbar, Muhammad Azeem
AU - Khan, Arif Ali
AU - Hussain, Shahid
AU - Fazal-E-Amin,
AU - Khan, Asfandyar
AU - Soofi, Aized Amin
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 IEEE.
PY - 2018/5/10
Y1 - 2018/5/10
N2 - Presently, global software development (GSD) is growing very rapidly. However, it is not an easy and straightforward process. Requirements engineering (RE) and requirements change management (RCM) both are considered as very challenging activities due to demanding rich communications. Because it is necessary to address geographical and cultural differences in GSD, this requirement makes RE and RCM challenging. This paper investigates the importance of project management in RE and RCM processes. First, the frameworks with the phenomena of specialized project management are proposed for RE and RCM. Then, a survey and blind interviews of the experts are conducted to validate the proposed frameworks. Finally, statistical tools are applied to analyze the collected data. By utilizing the analyzed data, our results show the significant impacts of both frameworks (i.e., RE and RCM) in the GSD environment.
AB - Presently, global software development (GSD) is growing very rapidly. However, it is not an easy and straightforward process. Requirements engineering (RE) and requirements change management (RCM) both are considered as very challenging activities due to demanding rich communications. Because it is necessary to address geographical and cultural differences in GSD, this requirement makes RE and RCM challenging. This paper investigates the importance of project management in RE and RCM processes. First, the frameworks with the phenomena of specialized project management are proposed for RE and RCM. Then, a survey and blind interviews of the experts are conducted to validate the proposed frameworks. Finally, statistical tools are applied to analyze the collected data. By utilizing the analyzed data, our results show the significant impacts of both frameworks (i.e., RE and RCM) in the GSD environment.
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U2 - 10.1109/ACCESS.2018.2834473
DO - 10.1109/ACCESS.2018.2834473
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85046788779
SN - 2169-3536
VL - 6
SP - 25747
EP - 25763
JO - IEEE Access
JF - IEEE Access
ER -