Systematic Mapping Study of Planning and Managing Deadlines in Case of Global Software Development

For a global software development (GSD), the effective planning and management of deadlines stand as critical pillars for project success. For a project to be successful, a schedule must be established and one of the best ways to do it is by proposing a platform for planning using constraint satisfaction solver which is supposed to help the project managers in analyzing the viability of their projects and creating useful schedules taking in consideration all global software development variants. Our paper conducts a systematic mapping study (SMS) to present a thorough summary of previous research on the aspects, techniques, and challenges associated with planning and managing deadlines in GSD contexts and looking for studies proposing models using constraint satisfaction solver. We found that meeting deadlines needs a good planning phase which needs a good: task allocation, management of requirement change, risk management and effort estimation. So, we will be focusing on these four aspects in our SMS. And then we will check if we have articles proposing solutions using constraint satisfaction solvers.