Green agility for global software development vendors: A systematic literature review protocol

Global software development (gsd) is now-a-days pervasive in software industry aiming to develop global standard software through geographically distributed skilled teams in minimum time and cost. in order to meet the demand for green software production and frequent changes in requirements of the clients,gsd developers have revamped traditional methods and trying to incorporate green principles with agile methods for rapid and energy efficient software development. this paper presents our contribution to building a systematic literature review (slr) protocol for green agile maturity (gam) for gsd vendor organizations. the protocol aims to systematically review the available literature for the identification of success/risk factors that may have a direct or indirect effect on green and sustainable software development using agile methods. the desired outcome of slr protocol will be a group of success/risk factors and their concerned practices that will be helpful for vendors to produce green and environmentally sustainable software by incorporating agile principles in global software development. © pakistan academy of sciences.