Defending the need for a new global software approach: A literature review

Software engineering has been affected by the globalization trend. Software companies embracing global software engineering can benefit from it by wisely approaching its challenges. This paper gives a literature review on general GSD´s challenges by examining how the focus changed in the last decade. There exist some global software development approaches that focus on overcoming these challenges. For example, the loosely coupled team approach helps to overcome the coordination issues that the virtual teams have to deal with by modularization of development work. However, none of these approaches is focused on supporting the development project with scattered individual developers.