TY - GEN
T1 - Towards a hypothetical framework of humans related success factors for process improvement in global software development
T2 - 32nd Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, SAC 2017
AU - Khan, Arif Ali
AU - Keung, Jacky
AU - Niazi, Mahmood
AU - Hussain, Shahid
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
Copyright 2017 ACM.
PY - 2017/4/3
Y1 - 2017/4/3
N2 - Presently, the majority of the software development organizations are adopting the phenomena of Global Software Development (GSD), mainly because of the significant return on investment it produces. However, GSD is a complex phenomenon and there are many challenges associated with it, especially that related to Software Process Improvement (SPI). The aim of this work is to identify humans' related factors that can positively impact the SPI process in GSD organizations and proposed a hypothetical framework of the identified success factors in relation to SPI implementation. We have adopted the Systematic Literature Review (SLR) method in order to identify the success factors. Using the SLR approach, total ten success factors were identified. The paper also reported the Critical Success Factors (CSFs) for SPI implementation following the criteria of the factors having a frequency ≥ 50% as critical. Our results reveal that five out of ten factors are critical for SPI program. Based on the analysis of the identified success factors, we have presented a hypothetical framework that has highlighted an association between the identified success factors and the implementation of the SPI program in GSD environment.
AB - Presently, the majority of the software development organizations are adopting the phenomena of Global Software Development (GSD), mainly because of the significant return on investment it produces. However, GSD is a complex phenomenon and there are many challenges associated with it, especially that related to Software Process Improvement (SPI). The aim of this work is to identify humans' related factors that can positively impact the SPI process in GSD organizations and proposed a hypothetical framework of the identified success factors in relation to SPI implementation. We have adopted the Systematic Literature Review (SLR) method in order to identify the success factors. Using the SLR approach, total ten success factors were identified. The paper also reported the Critical Success Factors (CSFs) for SPI implementation following the criteria of the factors having a frequency ≥ 50% as critical. Our results reveal that five out of ten factors are critical for SPI program. Based on the analysis of the identified success factors, we have presented a hypothetical framework that has highlighted an association between the identified success factors and the implementation of the SPI program in GSD environment.
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U2 - 10.1145/3019612.3019685
DO - 10.1145/3019612.3019685
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85020862525
T3 - Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing
SP - 180
EP - 186
BT - 32nd Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, SAC 2017
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
Y2 - 4 April 2017 through 6 April 2017
ER -