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Distribution of Communication and Coordination Challenges Identified via SLR based on Study Strategies
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Offshore Software Development Outsourcing (OSDO) is the rising business paradigm for Global Software Development. OSDO principals (clients) hire external offshore organizations (vendors) to develop components-of or complete software products based on an outsourcing contract. This paper reports communication and coordination challenges faced by OSDO...
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... answer RQ6, we analyzed results based on different study strategies (See: Table 7). Our rigorously selected SLR sample size included 101 articles from which we extracted data regarding study strategies and methodologies from each paper according to a pre-defined data extraction format given in the SLR protocol. ...
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... We thus identified the following six strategies: case studies, interviews, surveys, ordinary literature review (OLR), SLR, and a mixed combination of two or more methods. Accordingly (See : Table 7), the majority of communication and coordination challenges were reported through case studies and OLR. We noted six challenges cited in ≥41% of articles among the 18 challenges extracted from case studies and OLR. ...
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... note, the following communication and coordination challenges had the highest citation rates for case studies: ‗geographical dispersal', ‗cultural differences, ‗language differences, ‗lack of ICT/technological cohesion' at 81, 72, 69 and 58%, respectively; and 84, 84, 69 and 53%, respectively for OLR. Results also demonstrated that ‗geographical dispersal', ‗cultural differences, ‗language differences and ‗lack of ICT/technological cohesion' had the highest citation rates for all three strategies (case study, OLR and SLR) (See: Table 7). We used the linear-by-linear Chi- Square test to identify statistically significant differences between study strategies to examine the following hypotheses: Null Hypothesis (H 0 ): In the discovery of communication and coordination challenges, there is no significant difference between studies strategies used to reveal a particular challenge. ...
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... results revealed a clear difference, indicating statistical significance. Indeed, Table 7 reveals it was the only challenge with p <0.05. Hence, in this case, H 0 was rejected and H 1 accepted. ...
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... A numeric description of the sample is assigned to the empirical survey strategy to get implicit knowledge of a precise or perplexing occurrence. Researchers commonly use empirical surveys to collect relevant data (Šmite et al. 2013;Creswell and Creswell 2017;Khan et al. 2012Khan et al. , 2016Lethbridge et al. 2005). ...
Over the last decade, the widespread adoption of cloud computing has spawned a new branch of the computing industry known as green cloud computing. Cloud computing is improving, and data centers are increasing at regular frequencies to meet the demands of users. On the other hand, cloud providers pose major environmental risks because massive data centers use a large amount of energy and leave a carbon footprint. One possible solution to this issue is the use of green cloud computing. However, clients face significant difficulties in adopting green cloud computing. This study aims to understand the problems faced by client organizations while considering green cloud computing. In addition, this study aims to empirically identify the solution to the challenges faced by green cloud computing practitioners. A questionnaire survey approach was used to get insight into green cloud computing practitioners concerning the challenges they faced and their solutions. Data were obtained from sixty-nine professionals in green cloud computing. The results revealed that “lack of quality of service”, “lack of dynamic response”, and “lack of services to satisfy client’s requirements” are critical for green cloud computing. In addition, sixty-three practices for addressing the challenges in green cloud computing are also identified. The identified challenges and practices of green cloud computing will benefit the client organizations to update and revise their process to consider green cloud computing. In addition, it will also assist vendor organizations in developing, planning, and managing systems concerning client satisfaction.
... Moreover, categorized them into the company, country, and team level by following the nature of issues. Khan et al. [30] pointed out communication and coordination related issues faced by vendor organizations in the GSD context. They adopted SLR and questionnaire survey method for findings and also validation of those findings. ...
Software project management inspires and urges the spirit of software developing team members which continues until project completion. Obviously, success of every project based on right selection of team members that ensures to meet the desired requirements of any software developing project. The fundamental aim of current study is to extract and prioritize issues faced by vendors of global software development (GSD) organizations during the selection of right team with having aim to complete the project successfully. As a methodology, a systematic literature review (SLR) used for data extraction and categorization, a questionnaire survey adopted for data validation, and a hierarchical analytical process (AHP) used for prioritizing extracted findings. A total of 12 issues are extracted and grouped into 3 categories (association, teamwork, and fascination). The overall result showed that “association” is the most important category as compare to other categories. Similarly, communication and coordination issues, team’s consistency and stability issues, and lack of expertise issues, etc are highlighted as the most critical issues during selection of right people for the right project from vendors’ perspective.
