Enabling offshore software testing: a case study
SEA '07 Proceedings of the 11th IASTED International Conference on Software Engineering and Applications
Success Factors for the Management of Global Virtual Teams for Software Development
International Journal of Human Capital and Information Technology Professionals
Global IT Project Management Using Web 2.0
International Journal of Information Technology Project Management
An empirically based terminology and taxonomy for global software engineering
Empirical Software Engineering
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Offshore outsourcing (offshoring) is increasingly important in IT projects. The anticipated gains are primarily cost savings and span to -- amongst others -- shorter time-to-market, address scarce qualified labor force, bypass local regulations, laws, and taxes, and work following the sun. However, many offshoring IT projects fail [3] and significantly miss their anticipated improvements mainly due to cost and quality issues.. We identified categories of projects that are likely to perform well in an offshoring scenario and some that won't. They are related to specific business processes, differences in language (client vs. offshore partners), and tacit knowledge. The paper at hand specifically regards the latter category of projects and suggests an offshoring framework to enable distributed, blended workforce in a real-world business context. The framework has been developed in large scale projects with IT service firms and consultancies and has been evaluated in a large distributed project [2] [6].