Managing Large-Scale Software Product Development Projects: A Review.

Digitalization is a trendy issue in the business development world. It has experienced how vital the need for digitalization is during the Covid-19 pandemic process. Today's world needs digital transformation both to create a systematic data flow and to compete with competitors. Although the main reason behind digital transformation is to be able to compete because it helps businesses respond more effectively to the customer needs. Software product development differs from the conventional product development, so does the management of the project. In the last century, software development became a complex problem due to the change in customer needs. Thus, it requires different project management approach than traditional project management. This paper seeks to understand large-scale software development issue in terms of project management manners by reviewing literature. The paper will highlight the studies performed starting from 1992 until 2022. In doing so, the reader will observe the change in this issue over time. The papers are categorized into 5 groups according to their research questions. These groups are (1) project management and monitoring papers that focused on the governance of a project, (2) case study papers that they do not provide universal solutions but assess a specific case, (3) problem solving papers as they try to develop an algorithm to solve a problem during management processes, (4) explanatory/taxonomy papers which explains the terms and conditions of project management concept, and finally (5) literature review papers. To the best of authors' knowledge, the literature lacks a review study which provides an overview of project management of software product development concept that contains all project management frameworks in the literature. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]