According to Carmel [3] the growth of this new way of
working and team dispersion is related to the companies’
interests in hiring more specialized professionals, reducing
development costs, having global presence, and reaching
proximity with clients. Some researchers have shown that
the adoption of distributed development brings benefits to
organizations, such as follow-the-sun development, less
costly and skilled workforces, productivity gain, among
others [15]. However, it also imposes additional challenges,
e.g. communication delay, lack of trust, lack of face-to-face
meetings, among others