The GSD is a modern software engineering paradigm. Many companies are adopting the GSD domain to reduce software development cost. Vendor organizations are struggling to compete internationally in attracting software development projects. Due to the increasing trend of GSD we are interested to discover project management challenges in GSD projects.
In our initial results the frequently mentioned challenges for project manager are lack of cultural understanding in team, lack of communication, time zone problem, and lack of coordination, lack of knowledge management, graphical distance and lack of trust. We have also discussed how one challenge impacts and leads to other project management challenges. The overarching objective of this project is to develop an initial global project management readiness framework to assist software development organizations in measuring and improving their project management readiness prior to starting global activities. In this paper, we have identified project management challenges in GSD projects. As part of our future work, we plan to identify solutions, in the form of best practices, for each of the frequently mentioned challenge. We intend to find these best practices by conducting an empirical study with software industry.