A Multicriteria Approach to Support Task Allocation in Projects of Distributed Software Development

Table 1

Codes used in the data consolidation table.

Question Id.	Description
PQ1	What approach was used or suggested for task assignment in DSD projects?
PQ2	Is the approach based on qualitative multi-criteria methods of decision-making?
PQ3	Is the approach based on any method of Verbal Decision Analysis framework?
PQ4	Does the study mention any factor or criterion that influences the assignment of tasks in distributed software environments?
SQ1	Does the approach describe a process?
SQ2	Does the approach have any automated support tool?
SQ3	Does the approach apply influencing factors extracted from the specific literature?
SQ4	Can the approach be instantiated from an organisation standard?
SQ5	Does the approach reuse knowledge?
SQ6	Does the approach presuppose consensus meeting?
SQ7	Does the approach presuppose feedback of results?
SQ8	Does the approach allow using a subset of the whole process?
SQ9	Does the approach allow modifying the main parameters (allocation object and executing unit)?
SQ10	Has the approach been applied in real-world situations?
SQ11	Has the approachbeen evaluated by users or professionals?
SQ12	Has the approachbeen evaluated by knowledge area experts?