A Novel Cloud Based Data Management Framework for Team and Project Activities in Global Software Development (GSD)

Today global software development is used to a great extent by software development teams because of its benefits like availability of expertise, twenty four hour development and cost etc. Along with its numerous benefits, GSD also has some challenges. Overcoming those challenges can significantly increase paybacks of GSD. Cloud computing is one of the latest patterns in computing that has various benefits and advantages. It provides many benefits to the customer. We argue that both GSD and cloud computing if combined can best serve to the users. Global teams can resolve most of the issues and achieve best from cloud practices. GSD challenges include most importantly data management as well as communication, coordination, security, project planning and management. Managing the data for such teams is one of the major issues. We surveyed the issues involved in detail from literature and answered two research questions regarding GSD challenges. We suggested to use Cloud Computing services and proposed a framework based on SAAS (Software-As-A-Service) cloud that will help to mitigate the problems.