MS, University of Cincinnati, 2020, Education, Criminal Justice, and Human Services: Information Technology

The adoption of Global Software Development (GSD) continues to gain momentum. Globally distributed development is used as a substitute to single-site development mostly for the economic and strategic benefits it offers. (GSD) consists of numerous unique challenges. Requirements change management is one of such challenges. The existing models for managing requirements change in globally distributed software development have some performance issues. This proposal intends to use the mixed research technique to assess the available requirements change management processes, investigate the underlying causes of requirements change in GSD and explore problems faced in managing the changes. The researcher hopes to propose a new model that will use cloud computing which can be implemented for requirements change management in GSD. The proposed model will be simulated and eventually tried to see how it will perform when used in a real-life GSD project.

Committee: M. Murat Ozer Ph.D. (Committee Chair); Bilal Gonen Ph.D. (Committee Member) Subjects: Information Technology