While there is increasing recognition amongst practitioners and academics that DSD (Distributed Software Development) imposes greater challenges and difficulties for project management, most organizations still manage distributed projects using the same methods, processes, and tools used in traditional projects. Although presents a systematic review of challenges in DSD, no systematic literature review has been undertaken to bring together the challenges and related solutions in terms of best practices, tools, and models to improve management of distributed software projects. Therefore, given the importance of effectively managing distributed software development projects, conduct a systematic literature review of what are the difficulties or challenges in managing DSD projects, what are the best practices to overcome these difficulties, and how existing models and tools support these practices.

A systematic literature review aims to evaluate and interpret all available knowledge relevant to a particular research question or topic, by using a rigorous, auditable, and reproducible method. Discuss the following issues:

challenges in project management of distributed software development

best practices that improve project management of distributed software development

tools used to support project management of distributed software development

What models of distributed software development exists?