The development of global software outsourcing and its project issues in a leading UK financial company

2009 1st International Conference on Information Science and Engineering, ICISE 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 2410-2415

  Zhou, Ji ^a   Mayhew, Pam J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Case study; Global Software Outsourcing (GSO); GSO project issues; Systems Development Lifecycle (SDL)

Indexed keywords

DATA ANALYSIS; FINANCIAL COMPANIES; GLOBAL SOFTWARE OUTSOURCING (GSO); PROJECT LEVELS; PROJECT PROCESS; PROJECT SPONSORS; SDL; SOFTWARE OUTSOURCING; SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; INFORMATION SCIENCE; RESEARCH;

OUTSOURCING;

EID: 77952760982     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICISE.2009.1200     Document Type: Conference Paper

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