Developers' coordination issues and its impact on software quality: A systematic review

Complex projects require involvement from many experts to fulfill the requirements. Complexity arises as working in distributed projects indeed requires expertise to overcome the gaps. Coordination among developers increases the likelihood of delivering high quality software. However, working in isolation impedes coordination and causes issues during development. Coordination issues impact the software quality in software engineering projects. This paper aims to investigate issues relating to coordination and its impact on software quality in software engineering projects. Systematic Literature Review (SLR) is applied to perform this study. Among the coordination issues uncovered are language barriers, intercultural, inefficient communication, lack of trust, lack of project flow understanding, different time zones, dependency issues, strategic issues, knowledge management, geographical distance, awareness, and organizational boundaries. As for the finding of this study, all these obstacles significantly impact software quality.