  DevOps (development and operations) aims to shorten the software development
process and provide continuous delivery with high software quality. To get the
potential gains of DevOps, the software development industry considering global
software development (GSD) environment to hire skilled human resources and
round-the-clock working hours. However, due to the lack of frequent
communication and coordination in GSD, the planning and managing of the
requirements change process becomes a challenging task. As in DevOps,
requirements are not only shaped by development feedback but also by the
operations team. This means requirements affect development, development
affects operations and operations affect requirements. However, DevOps in GSD
still faces many challenges in terms of requirement management. The purpose of
this research project is to develop a DevOps requirement change management and
implementation maturity model (DevOps-RCMIMM) that could assist the GSD
organizations in modifying and improving their requirement management process
in the DevOps process. The development of DevOps-RCMIMM will be based on the
existing DevOps and RCM literature, industrial empirical study, and
understanding of factors that could impact the implementation of the DevOps
requirement change management process in the domain of GSD. This vision study
presents the initial results of a systematic literature review that will
contribute to the development of maturity levels of the proposed DevOps-RCMIMM.
