Benefits of global software development: The known and unknown

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 5007 LNCS, Issue , 2008, Pages 1-9

  Ågerfalk, Pär J ^a,b   Fitzgerald, Brian ^a   Holmström Olsson, Helena ^a,c   Ó Conchúir, Eoin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK   (Ireland)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Benefits; Challenges; Global software development; Offshoring

Indexed keywords

COST REDUCTION; INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT; OUTSOURCING; RESOURCE ALLOCATION;

COORDINATION COSTS; GLOBAL SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; TEAM BENEFITS;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 44649150400     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-79588-9_1     Document Type: Conference Paper

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