Offshore Challenges Affecting Requirement Phase

There are four key challenges in offshore software development such as:

• Trust
• Socio-cultural
• Communication and Coordination
• Knowledge Transfer

In the presentation below we have shown how these challenges effect the requirement phase of software development.

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