Impact of Requirements Volatility and Flexible Management on GSD Project Success: A Study Based on the Dimensions of Requirements Volatility

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International Journal of Agile Systems and Management Pub Date : 2019-07-26 DOI:10.1504/IJASM.2019.10018758

Mohammad Shameem, B. Chandra, C. Kumar, Arif Khan

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Abstract

Global software development (GSD) is a modern approach that is currently being adopted by software organisations, mainly because of significant return on investment it produces. In the GSD projects, the development teams operate under the three distributed dimensions: geographical, cultural and temporal distances which increases substantial communication difficulties and becomes the development activities more challenging especially related to requirement volatility. The objective of this study is to identify the relationship between requirements volatility, and GSD project success. We have proposed a GSD risk-based model that consider project performance risk as a mediating variable for analysing the impact of requirement volatility on GSD project success. A questionnaire study was conducted from the 103 GSD experts to validate the proposed model. The findings reveal that requirements volatility increases the project performance risk which has a negative impact on the GSD project success which can be managed by the flexible management.

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需求波动和柔性管理对GSD项目成功的影响:基于需求波动维度的研究

全球软件开发(GSD)是一种现代方法，目前被软件组织所采用，主要是因为它产生了显著的投资回报。在GSD项目中，开发团队在三个分布式维度下操作:地理、文化和时间距离，这增加了实质性的沟通困难，并使开发活动更具挑战性，特别是与需求波动相关的活动。本研究的目的是确定需求波动和GSD项目成功之间的关系。我们提出了一个基于GSD风险的模型，该模型将项目绩效风险作为中介变量，用于分析需求波动对GSD项目成功的影响。对103名GSD专家进行问卷调查以验证所提出的模型。研究结果表明，需求波动增加了项目绩效风险，对GSD项目的成功有负面影响，可以通过灵活的管理来管理。

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International Journal of Agile Systems and Management Multidisciplinary-Multidisciplinary

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期刊介绍： The objective of IJASM is to establish an effective channel of communication between academia, industry and persons concerned with the design and development of systems. Change is eternal and perpetual, irrespective of type of system. Systems created in the course of the advance of human civilization need to be functionally and operationally sustainable amid changes in technological, political, socio-economical, financial, cultural and other environmental challenges. IJASM aims to promote and harmonize knowledge developments in the emerging fields of agile systems research, sustainability and vulnerability analysis, risk assessments methodologies, complex systems science, e-organisation and e-supply chain management, with emphasis on the international dimension, particularly breaking cultural barriers, and on national contexts, globalisation and new business practices. As such, we aim to publish papers presenting new research, innovative theoretical approaches, changes in agile management paradigms, and action (both examples of successes and failures as long as there are important lessons to be learned) from leading scholars and practitioners. Papers generally fall into two broad categories: those grounded in theory and/or papers using scientific research methods (e.g., reports of original empirical studies, models, critical reviews of existing empirical research, theory pieces that clearly extend current thinking); and those focusing on innovative agile approaches that are based on well reasoned extensions of existing research, experiential knowledge, or exemplary cases (e.g., thought pieces, case studies, etc).