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Forces Affecting Offshore Software Development

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Software Process Improvement (EuroSPI 2005)

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This paper identifies the forces affecting offshore software development based on a knowledge management perspective. The identified four major forces act along the dimensions of finance, individual education, organizational maturity, and culture. The analysis is validated on cases of European offshoring practice exhibited in the database of the EuroSPI (European Software Process Improvement) series of conferences.

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  1. Deparment of Information Systems, Corvinus University of Budapest, 1053, Budapest, Veres Pálné u. 36

    Miklós Biró & Péter Fehér

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  1. Lero – the Irish Software Engineering Research Centre, University of Limerick, Ireland

    Ita Richardson

  2. VTT Electronics, Oulu, Finland

    Pekka Abrahamsson

  3. EuroSPI, c/o ISCN LTD, Bray, Co. Wicklow, Ireland

    Richard Messnarz

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Biró, M., Fehér, P. (2005). Forces Affecting Offshore Software Development. In: Richardson, I., Abrahamsson, P., Messnarz, R. (eds) Software Process Improvement. EuroSPI 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3792. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11586012_18

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