| Number | GDD metacodes | Tags/description |
| 1 | Communication | Communication patterns (generating ideas, confirmation, consensus, conflict, humor, and attitude), positive and negative | 2 | Coordination | Time zone (delay in responses) collaboration, and involvement | 3 | Adaptation | Social, work, technological, conflict resolution, and lateral thinking | 4 | Company background | Company size, maturity levels, existing development approaches, and company’s culture | 5 | Stakeholders | Project under study’s stakeholders related information, years of experience, and so forth | 6 | Collaboration technologies | Simple emails, advanced collaboration technologies | 7 | Requirements challenges due to distance | Inadequate communication, knowledge management, cultural diversity, and time difference | 8 | Requirements activities | Elicitation, prioritization, negotiation, validation, examining current system, and managing uncertainty specification | 9 | Involvement of users | Achieving appropriate participation of system users and field personnel | 10 | Trust | Checking project status, concern about a member doing his task, and trust built progressively | 11 | Delay | Sources and nature of delay, perceived causes, and delay mitigation actions |
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