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Software Development Process Evolution in Malaysian Companies

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Data Management, Analytics and Innovation

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GSD is a phenomenon mainly associated with the outsourcing of software development projects to some offshore company. Reduction in software development cost increased productivity and advantage of multisite development with respect to time are the main benefits that software development companies (SDCs) get from GSD. Besides benefits, a number of challenges associated with GSD are also observed. Consequently, the traditional processes to develop software are evolving and being replaced with a new set of processes which are lightweight and outcome-based. The process evolution has been deeply investigated in the context of companies mostly in Europe, Australia, USA and mainly other countries in those regions. In this regard, limited research has been carried out on Malaysian companies. The present research investigates the process evolution phenomenon in Malaysian companies. The current software development processes and the reasons for the evolution of software processes in Malaysian software companies have been identified. A qualitative approach using structured interviews has been followed for the collection of data collection and its analysis. The findings explain that software processes in most of the Malaysia companies are increasingly evolving or have been evolved. The companies are overwhelmingly adopting agile methods because of their support to GSD. Some of the companies are using ad hoc approaches for software development. The size of the company and project has been found as one of the main factors behind using ad hoc approaches. Mainly the small and medium-size companies and projects are involved in this practice.

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This research project is supported under UTARRF; IPSR/RMC/UTARRF/2014-C1/R01, University Tunku Abdul Rahman, Malaysia. All procedures performed in the study involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institution, and comparable ethical standards. Prior public disclosure approval to publish the results of the study have been taken from the university. The research study is led and supervised by Dr. Rehan Akbar as the sole member of the supervisory committee. The anonymity of the respondents of the questionnaire and data has been treated as strictly confidential, and not disclosed at any level.

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Akbar, R., Khan, A.R., Adnan, K. (2020). Software Development Process Evolution in Malaysian Companies. In: Sharma, N., Chakrabarti, A., Balas, V. (eds) Data Management, Analytics and Innovation. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1042. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-32-9949-8_10

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