Global Software Development: A Design to Measure Risk of Global Practitioners

In today's dynamic, fast world, many IT organizations are shifting their focus towards global software development to utilize every possible benefit across geography. This provides an opportunity for many practitioners across the globe to undertake an assignment for their betterment. Though, they undertake assignments with confidence, they face multiple challenge in the working environment to gain trust from various stakeholders. This paper provides a design approach to measure the risk factors of the global practitioners in an IT organization. It proposes a MultiAgent Simulation Model (MASM) to measure the risk of global practitioners to gain trust from various stakeholders in Global Software Development (GSD). This work highlights the sequential activities for measuring the risk and their attributes concern using multi-agent. These agents execute their task based on activities and gather the data relevant for measurement. The overall risk for a global practitioner is stated and ready for development.