An Investigation of the Effective Management of Communication for Successful Distributed Software Development Teams

This paper presents a Communication Framework to assist dispersed software development teams in successfully managing their communication. As the development of software projects are increasingly undertaken by teams in a dispersed environment, it has become necessary to establish a Communication Framework which can support these teams in the management of their communication. The Communication Framework comprises of three Developmental stages namely; Initial, Development and Closure and a collaboration of communication tools are presented to be used during the various developmental stages. This framework assists dispersed software development teams in successfully managing their communication process.