Team-based distributed software development (TBDSD) is one of the single biggest challenges facing software companies. The need to manage development efforts and resources in different locations increase the complexity and cost of modern day software development. Current software development environments do not provide suitable support to delegate task among teams with appropriate directives. TBDSD is also limited to the current internet capabilities. One of the resulting problems is the difficulty to delegate and control tasks assigned among remote teams. This paper proposes (1) a new framework for delegation in TBDSD, and (2) perspectives for deploying Process-centered Software Engineering Environments (PSEE) over the Global Environment for Network Innovations (GENI) infrastructure. GENI, the 'future Internet' that is taking shape in prototypes across the US, will allow, in the context of our study, to securely access and share software artifacts, resources, and tools as never before seen over the current Internet.

The need to combine several efforts in software development has become critical because of the software development requirements and geographically dispersed qualified human resources, background skills, working methods, and software tools among autonomous software enterprises - joint software development. We know that the organization and the development of software depend largely on human initiatives. All human initiatives are subject to change and perpetual evolution. A variety of studies have contributed to highlight the problems arising from the change and the perpetual evolution of the software development. These studies revealed that the majority of the effort spent on the software process is spent on maintenance. To reduce the efforts of software maintenance in joint software development, it is therefore necessary to detect the features of software maintenance processes susceptible to be automatized. The software maintenance problems in joint software development are caused by the changes and perpetual evolutions at the organizational level of an enterprise or at the software development level. The complex nature of changes and perpetual evolutions at the organizational and the development levels includes the following factors: the maintenance contracts among enterprises, the abilities to develop, experiences and background in software development, methodologies of software development, tools available and localization of the organizations. This paper looks into the new software maintenance problems in joint software development by geographically dispersed virtual enterprises.