Effectiveness of Control and Coordination of Global Software Development (GSD) Projects

Abstract

Control and Coordination effectiveness in developing the software projects globally, plays a major role in achieving the good quality and meeting the goals and objectives of the project. In the global software projects, the teams will be located in different locationsacross the globe. However, geographical distancebetween team members creates difficulties forthe effective control and coordination during the project execution.Control and coordination is having a set of orientation factors which constitute structural and contextual pillars that form the management of global software development projects. Such structural and contextual pillars enable the control and coordination to help organisations to keep pace with the changes in competitive business environment more easily, rapidly and dynamically.The structural and contextual pillars of sophisticated control and coordination of software projects, work together towards achieving greater effectiveness. In the light of the current tendency to securing for achieving the effectiveness of control and coordination is possible in competitive business milieus by using proper tools, techniques, policies, framework during the different stages of the project. In this article, we have briefed and summarizes the effectiveness and the factors influences the control and coordination of global software development projects.