Empirical analysis of challenges in implementing agile methodologies in global software development

Agile processes have become a key factor in the continuously changing sector of contemporary software development, fundamentally affecting conventional project management approaches. In modern society, the global software development system has become a worldwide business, spreading daily. While integrating software engineering with agile methodologies offers benefits, it also presents several challenges. First, all possible challenges are identified from the literature via a systematic literature review (SLR). Next, these challenges are reviewed by software industries using a questionnaire survey across various types and levels of experts and then by comparing SLR and Questionnaire Survey. As a result of SLR, 18 challenges were identified from a total of 60 articles that were finalized after executing SLR protocol. The identified challenges were analyzed based on expert role, experience, and type. Further analysis of identified challenges was based on SLR result comparison with questionnaire survey results. This study tries to fill the gap between empirical results and literature findings. Results of systematic literature and empirical study will help industrial experts to have a better understanding of the effect of challenges of agile in GSD.