Challenges and Solutions of Project Management in Distributed Software Development

Challenge of developing software has increased because of several factors, e.g. complexity of these systems and lack of skilled available professional next of development companies. Thus, they should seek alternatives; one of them is global software development. Therefore, software project management should adapt to this reality and resolve challenges not previously found in the “traditional” management. In this paper, we present an initial list of challenges in project management in the context of global software development and solutions proposed by researchers and project managers to try to solve these challenges. We used Literature Systematic Mapping for finding challenges and solutions for software project management. We found 29 papers and used 20 initial papers, totalizing 49 papers. The findings showed 18 challenges which were listed with its solutions.