Software Engineering Approaches for Offshore and Outsourced Development
SEAFOOD 2009: Enabling Global Partnerships to Deliver on Business Needs Companies have been outsourcing areas of software development work for many years, either because of the engineering challenges or because the outsourced aspect is not central to thei
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Olly Gotel Mathai Joseph Bertrand Meyer (Eds.)
Software Engineering Approaches for Offshore and Outsourced Development Third International Conference, SEAFOOD 2009 Zurich, Switzerland, July 2-3, 2009 Proceedings
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Volume Editors Olly Gotel Pace University New York City, NY 10038, USA E-mail: [email protected] Mathai Joseph Tata Consultancy Services Pune 411 001, India E-mail: [email protected] Bertrand Meyer ETH Zurich Department of Computer Science 8092 Zurich, Switzerland E-mail: [email protected]
Library of Congress Control Number: 2009929830 ACM Computing Classification (1998): D.2, K.6, K.4.2, J.1 ISSN ISBN-10 ISBN-13
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Preface SEAFOOD 2009: Enabling Global Partnerships to Deliver on Business Needs
Companies have been outsourcing areas of software development work for many years, either because of the engineering challenges or because the outsourced aspect is not central to their core business. A profound transformation has been affecting this model over recent years: a massive transfer of development activities from the USA and Europe to a skilled labor force in service-providing countries. This transformation has been driven by the demands of a global business climate seeking to increase the value delivery of IT investment. However, the ability to realize this value can prove problematic in practice. Of particular concern are the hidden costs of globally distributed models of working, such as understanding and communicating the true business needs across organizational and cultural boundaries. To address such issues, offshore outsourcing requires different support from in-house development and this means adapting familiar techniques, processes and tools to this setting, as well as perhaps creating innovative new ones. Coupled with this industry transformation there is hence a pressing need to re-examine those software engineering approaches that either facilitate or impede this model of working. With an inevitable focus on the economy in 2009, business decisions regarding the sourcing of software development projects will come under close scrutiny. It will become increasingly
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