Critical Barriers in Project Management Faced by Offshore Software Multi-Sourcing Vendors: A Detailed Study
Multi-sourcing risks
Keywords:
Global software development, multi-sourcing, software project management, vendors, SLR, offshore software development outsourcing, barriersAbstract
Multi-sourcing is a modern business strategy in Global Software Development (GSD), adopted by many organizations in developed areas for producing fast and improved quality software products with minimum developmental cost by contracting the project with copious vendor organizations at low prices countries. The objective of this research work is to find out all possible critical barriers (CBs) in software project management faced by multi-sourcing vendor organizations. This will assist in planning for mitigation and avoidance of these risks/barriers for successfully achieving project goals in earlier planning phase. Systematic Literature Review (SLR) was used for identification of these critical barriers that can be faced by vendor organizations at various stages of SDLC for multi-sourced software projects development. Our research reveals that most of the challenges are relevant to planning phase of SDLC.
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