The paper describes coordination practices of small and medium enterprises (SME) that
outsourced parts of their software development to offshore vendors. Our case study in a …

Global software development has become an important issue for small and medium
enterprises. However, the distinct requirements of SME are still not so well understood. In …

Global sourcing in IT projects becomes increasingly important in medium and large-scale
software projects to keep up with growth and innovation demands of the industry. Offshore …

We report on an ethnographic study of an offshore global software development project
between Danish and Philippine developers in a Danish company called GlobalSoft. We …

Decades of software engineering research have tried to reduce the interdependency of
source code to make parallel development possible. However, code remains helplessly …

Distributed software projects are becoming increasingly commonplace in industry. Yet,
software engineering education rarely graduates students with the necessary skills and …

This paper will focus on what could be one of the biggest challenges in offshore
development, communication. Communication is of such importance, that if it is not taken …

Software development in distributed teams remains challenging despite rapid technical
improvement in tools for communication and collaboration across distance. The challenges …

This thesis researches communication and coordination in offshore custom software
development (CSD) projects. Nowadays, a lot of organizations are offshoring their …

Offshore software development has become one of the prominent software engineering
trends in recent years. Many software development projects are switching to offshore sites …