Barriers of managing cloud outsource software development projects: a multivocal study

Muhammad Azeem Akbar; Sajjad Mahmood; Chandrashekhar Meshram; Ahmed Alsanad; Abdu Gumaei; Salman A. AlQahtani

doi:10.1007/s11042-021-11245-9

Barriers of managing cloud outsource software development projects: a multivocal study

Muhammad Azeem Akbar^*, Sajjad Mahmood, Chandrashekhar Meshram, Ahmed Alsanad^*, Abdu Gumaei, Salman A. AlQahtani

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Abstract

Management of COSD projects is a challenging task due to number of distant development locations in different time zones, client and vendor organizations, different cloud deployment models and range of different service level agreements. The objective of this study is to identify the barriers associated with managing COSD projects. We implemented a Multivocal Literature Review to identify barriers that influence management of COSD projects. We identified 21 COSD management barriers from 165 primary studies. The comparison between the barriers identified from formal and grey literature indicate that there are similarities between the barriers investigated from both types of literature. Moreover, client-vendor analysis shows that there is no significant difference between COSD management barriers associated with both types of organizations. We believe that the study findings will assist both research and industry community to better understand and manage COSD projects.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	35571-35594
Number of pages	24
Journal	Multimedia Tools and Applications
Volume	81
Issue number	25
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-021-11245-9
State	Published - Oct 2022

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Keywords

Barriers
Cloud computing
Cloud outsource software development
Multivocal literature review
Software outsourcing

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Software
Media Technology
Hardware and Architecture
Computer Networks and Communications

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