Empirical Analysis of Critical Success Factors for Project Management in Global Software Development

Global software development (GSD) is a well-recognized business model to achieve competitiveness in the current global market. However this model has its own challenges due to the complex nature of its development process. Project management is an area of concern in software development and it has a strong influence in the GSD environment. Mostly, companies embrace GSD without prior knowledge of its issues and as a result fail in the management of its process and outcomes of the project. Major reason behind this failure is poor project management practices that do not fit into the GSD context. This research work explores significance of project management and critical success factors (CSF's) in GSD in order to improve processes and facilitate software companies in implementing this developmental model successfully.