An academic perspective on globalization in the software industry

In this paper, the author has presented the challenges in global software development and then identified the gaps in the academic curriculum that should be addressed in order to train software engineers to be cognizant of current issues in executing large, global software projects. We have also outlined a practically oriented academic course that will stress on the skills needed to actually execute global projects. Over multiple offerings of such a course we hope to abstract out the actual issues faced and present suitable solutions as learnings