Global Software and IT: A Guide to Distributed Development, Projects, and Outsourcing (Paperback)

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 guidelines, collaboration, and communication. Drawing on the author's vast experience, it shares best practices and survival strategies from projects of various types and sizes that involve different continents and diverse cultures.

全球軟體工程，包括內部和外包開發，是業界中快速增長的情境；某些行業的增長率超過每年20％。然而，一半的離岸活動在前2年內被取消，對組織造成了巨大的意外成本。

本書將提供一個更平衡的全球開發規劃框架，涵蓋管理分散地點的人員、跨地點項目管理、減輕離岸風險、全球開發流程、實用的外包指南、協作和溝通等主題。借鑒作者的豐富經驗，本書分享了來自不同大陸和多元文化的各種類型和規模的項目的最佳實踐和生存策略。