A software development support portal (SDSP) based on a peer-to-peer platform - a case study

As more and more organizations and companies increasingly outsource system development projects offshore the complexity of management and support increases proportionally. Traditional software development support tools are no longer sufficient to support a geographically and culturally diversified development team. Furthermore, to increase the chance of success, clients and stakeholders should be invited to participate in every step of the development. There is a need of a software development support portal (SDSP) to tie all the pieces together. In this paper, we propose a software development support portal that is designed and implemented based on a commercially available peer-to-peer (P2P) platform.