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Limitations and Measures in Outsourcing Projects to Geographically Distributed Offshore Teams

Latest global social, economic and technological changes have given birth to a new generation of software engineering practice. Traditional approaches of software development have become less popular. Software development by centrally located in-house teams has slowly been replaced by geographically...

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Main Authors: Akhbar, R., Hassan, M.F.
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Published: 2010
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QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science
QA76 Computer software
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spelling my.utp.eprints.31542017-01-19T08:24:07Z Limitations and Measures in Outsourcing Projects to Geographically Distributed Offshore Teams Akhbar, R. Hassan, M.F. QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science QA76 Computer software Latest global social, economic and technological changes have given birth to a new generation of software engineering practice. Traditional approaches of software development have become less popular. Software development by centrally located in-house teams has slowly been replaced by geographically distributed offshore teams. As such project outsourcing to geographically distributed offshore teams has become a popular and profitable practice. Although it has a number of positive aspects, disadvantages of outsourcing to distributed offshore teams far out-weighted its advantages. This paper identifies those limitations associated with this trend and recommends respective measures to improve the process to overcome them. Real projects outsourced to distributed offshore teams have been exercised and analyzed to identify the limitations and deriving respective measures. The paper suggests that the success of project management activities is dependent on reducing the risk factors and the capability of the project managers to manage the issues involved. 2010-06 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed application/pdf http://eprints.utp.edu.my/3154/1/stamp.jsp%3Ftp%3D%26arnumber%3D5561457%26tag%3D1 http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/search/srchabstract.jsp?tp=&arnumber=5561457&queryText%3DLimitations+and+Measures%26openedRefinements%3D*%26searchField%3DSearch+All Akhbar, R. and Hassan, M.F. (2010) Limitations and Measures in Outsourcing Projects to Geographically Distributed Offshore Teams. In: International Symposium on Information Technology 2010, ITSim, June 2010, Kuala Lumpur. http://eprints.utp.edu.my/3154/
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topic QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science
QA76 Computer software
spellingShingle QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science
QA76 Computer software
Akhbar, R.
Hassan, M.F.
Limitations and Measures in Outsourcing Projects to Geographically Distributed Offshore Teams
description Latest global social, economic and technological changes have given birth to a new generation of software engineering practice. Traditional approaches of software development have become less popular. Software development by centrally located in-house teams has slowly been replaced by geographically distributed offshore teams. As such project outsourcing to geographically distributed offshore teams has become a popular and profitable practice. Although it has a number of positive aspects, disadvantages of outsourcing to distributed offshore teams far out-weighted its advantages. This paper identifies those limitations associated with this trend and recommends respective measures to improve the process to overcome them. Real projects outsourced to distributed offshore teams have been exercised and analyzed to identify the limitations and deriving respective measures. The paper suggests that the success of project management activities is dependent on reducing the risk factors and the capability of the project managers to manage the issues involved.
format Conference or Workshop Item
author Akhbar, R.
Hassan, M.F.
author_facet Akhbar, R.
Hassan, M.F.
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title Limitations and Measures in Outsourcing Projects to Geographically Distributed Offshore Teams
title_short Limitations and Measures in Outsourcing Projects to Geographically Distributed Offshore Teams
title_full Limitations and Measures in Outsourcing Projects to Geographically Distributed Offshore Teams
title_fullStr Limitations and Measures in Outsourcing Projects to Geographically Distributed Offshore Teams
title_full_unstemmed Limitations and Measures in Outsourcing Projects to Geographically Distributed Offshore Teams
title_sort limitations and measures in outsourcing projects to geographically distributed offshore teams
publishDate 2010
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