Software development projects in multi-site and multi-cultural environments: A discourse of challenges

Software products and information technology (IT) systems that are being developed ill or sourced front foreign countries are becoming popular among business organisations for various reasons including cost advantage and reliability. The trend of sourcing or developing software products using,foreign pal-lies does present its challenges. Ill this paper, we shall identity and discuss the challenges facing organisations with a desire to exploit the option of sourcing or developing software products in multi-site and multi-cultural environments. To that end, a conceptual framework is proposed to guide the discourse. The research community benefits from comprehensive literature on the issue, and practitioners may apply some of the suggestions mooted herein.