Challenges of global stakeholder´s in software release

The increasing globalization of software industry faces lot of challenges in software development and its final release to meet the stakeholder´s requirements. Requirement gathering is a task difficult enough when done locally - but it is even more difficult when global stakeholder specify requirements across the world. Today´s globalization of software development has its advantages, but also its drawbacks. Software release manager´s major concern is to ensure the software release as per the schedule, cost, resource, constraints and requirements. Requirements are the foundation of the software release process. It provides the basis for approximation of costs and schedules along with the developing design and testing specifications. This paper analyses the main challenges faced in Global Software Environment.