Globalization and global teams have become a common and significant practice across a multitude of industries. Software teams are increasingly distributed around the world, collaborating both internally across the company and externally with partner companies, subsidiaries, and outsourcing service providers. “Going global” offers many benefits, and presents challenges to the distributed teams.

 

GDD is the practice of coordination of development activities across sites to produce software applications, as well as the management across distributed repositories of the assets that contribute to those applications.