The needs of the consumer are drastically changing with increased awareness, technology, and innovation. Information technology services are no longer part of the support function but a full-scale solution; the increased demand for personalized, real-time, and hassle-free services has burdened software solution providing companies. Over the last decade, Agile project management has gained popularity among various industries and specifically in the Information Technology industry and is often considered a silver bullet to solve different software project management challenges. Agile project management revolutionized the way software projects are developed and organized. However, organizations find it challenging to implement agile principles as the process requires an organization-wide cultural and social transformation. Managers face several barriers when they try to bring agile approaches in traditional organizations regarding technology, mindset, practices. It’s not adequate to just start learning and implementing new ways of working. The transition process needs parallel or equally salient activities of dealing with challenges on the organization and team level. This study provides insights for software organizations willing to undergo an agile transition that needs an initial understanding of various challenges, which can be a potential pitfall in the transition process.

[pt] A Globalização promove inúmeras oportunidades para as empresas incluindo o acesso a múltiplos mercados, novas receitas, conhecimentos e tecnologias capazes de incrementar sua competitividade. Paralelamente, gera uma série de ameaças num ambiente crescente de instabilidade mundial que provém de conflitos geopolíticos e sociais, alguém de riscos econômico-financeiros. Mais ainda, a solidicação de um sistema econômico global em desequilíbrio é um dos principais motivos dos conflitos e dos riscos. Estas vertentes da Globalização, tanto positivas quanto negativas, causam distúrbios e oscilações agressivas aos mercados criando desafios à gestâo estratégica corporativa global. As abordagens teóricas do processo de Globalização das empresas, disponíveis na literatura levam em conta as vertentes de ameaças e oportunidades, no entanto de forma desordenada. Este estudo propõe uma análise qualitativa das principais abordagens existentes com o objetivo de identificar os desafios da gestão corporativa de empresas em transformação global sob essas duas vertentes. Mais ainda, demonstra que a busca de alternativas para sua sobrevivência e independência doméstica, requer a revisão da forma de suas funções administrativas e a formulação e implementação de suas estratégias, de maneira a definir a estrutura necessária para a expansão de seus negócios. É demonstrado também que vislumbrar novos mercados requer diversas habilidades dinâmicas, mas também sistematização para administrar desafios externos e internos. / [en] Globalization provides several opportunities to companies, including access to multiple markets, new revenues, knowledge and technologies, that increases their competitivity. On the other hand, it generates a series of threats within an environment of worldwide growing instability, originated from social and geopolitical conflicts, together with financial and economical risks. Moreover, the solidification of an unstable global economical system is at the heart of such conflicts and risks. Such aspects of the Globalization process, both the positive and negative ones, may cause aggressive disturbances and oscillations in the markets creating challenges to the global corporate strategic management. The modern approaches to managerial globalization process take into account both these aspects, opportunities and threats, however in an unordered way. In this work we present a qualitative analysis of the main approaches to global companies, aiming to pinpoint the challenges of corporate management of companies under globalization. Moreover, we demonstrate that a search for alternatives to a company's survival and domestic independence requires a change of perspective regarding their administrative functions and the formulation and implementation of their strategies, in order to define the necessary infrastructure to allow its business growth. It is also shown that a search for new markets requires several dynamic abilities but also a systematic method to manage internal and external challenges.