Towards Dependable Change Management and Traceability for Global Software Development

TL;DR

This paper presents a comprehensive model and guidelines for managing requirements changes and traceability in global software development, integrating CMMI Level 2 practices and a cloud-based middleware for dependable project management.

Contribution

It introduces a new change management model and traceability guidelines tailored for GSD, along with an adapted PMBOK process group and a cloud middleware solution.

Findings

Effective change management supports CMMI Level 2 goals.

The middleware enhances traceability and dependability in GSD.

Guidelines improve system engineering process management.

Abstract

This paper reports on our definition of guidelines for managing global software development (GSD) that implements the specific practice - manage requirements changes - of the Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) Level 2. The guidelines present a model for change management and traceability that supports the implementation of the specific CMMI Level 2 goal. Also, to support the effective management of the system engineering processes, an adaptation of the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) process group (PG) for project life-cycle practices is provided. We introduce a cloud-based Reactive Middleware which provides services for managing GSD projects towards dependable change management and traceability.