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Global Software Development (GSD) has gained great attention during the past decade or so, and it is also being adopted by most of the software development organizations. The GSD approach is practiced by the software development organizations in China and a wide range of firms have established its operations in various Chinese cities. However, GSD practices becomes more challenging for the projects based on the agile concepts. The aim of this study is to develop a taxonomy of the factors that could positively impact the scaling process of agile methods in the Chinese GSD industry. The factors are identified by exploring the available literature and conducting industrial study with the Chinese agile and GSD practitioners. The finally reported factors are categorized, prioritized and developed their taxonomy using the multi-criterion decision making (MCDM) Fuzzy AHP approach. The given taxonomy is significant and progressive for GSD industry to assess and improve the scaling process of agile methods. • Explore the factors that could positively impact the agile scaling process in Chinese global software development (GSD) industry. • Develop the conceptual mapping of the identified factors. • Conceptual mapping is empirically validated. • The fuzzy AHP approach used to priorities the identified factors and the respective categories. • Develop the recommendation taxonomy of the factors based on the fuzzy AHP findings. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]