Today's software industry is more global than ever before. The idea of developing major software systems in one location or by one single team belongs to the past. Over the past decade, research on GSE has uncovered many challenges associated with operating over physical, temporal, cultural, and linguistic distances. Unfortunately, these challenges have become even more personal to many more in 2020 due to the disruption provoked by the COVID-19 pandemic. Studies have shown how organizations have struggled to smoothly transition to virtual work, and while Global Software Engineering (GSE) is part of everyday life by now, succeeding in the global software industry remains challenging, with a considerable share of global projects still not meeting the expectations, especially regarding cost savings and time to market. Albeit known, distances are still causing severe breakdowns in cooperation within virtual teams and among distributed ones. As such, there is a considerable gap to fill in to establish how to manage such challenges effectively.
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