

An edition of Global Software and IT (2011)
A Guide to Distributed Development, Projects, and Outsourcing
By Christof Ebert
Publish Date
2011
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons
Language
eng
Pages
368
Description:
Global software engineering, implying both internal and outsourced development, is a fast-growing scenario within industry; the growth rates in some sectors are more than 20% per year. However, half of all offshoring activities are cancelled within the first 2 years, at tremendous unanticipated cost to the organization. This book will provide a more balanced framework for planning global development, covering topics such as managing people in distributed sites, managing a project across locations, mitigating the risk of offshoring, processes for global development, practical outsourcing g.