Reasons for success and failure in offshore software development projects

16th European Conference on Information Systems, ECIS 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Fabriek, Matthias ^a   Brand, Mischa Van Den ^b   Brinkkemper, Sjaak ^a   Harmsen, Frank ^b   Helms, Remko ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b CAPGEMINI   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Custom software development; Offshore project; Project coordination; Project success

Indexed keywords

CUSTOM SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; IN-DEPTH ANALYSIS; INFORMAL COMMUNICATION; KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE; OFFSHORE PROJECT; PROJECT COORDINATION; PROJECT MANAGERS; PROJECT SUCCESS; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS; TEAM MEMBERS;

COMMUNICATION; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; MANAGEMENT; MANAGERS;

SOFTWARE DESIGN;

EID: 84870636653     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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