Global software engineering, implying both internal and outsourced development,
is a fast-growing scenario within industry; the growth rates in some sectors
are more than 20% per year. However, half of all offshoring activities are
cancelled within the first 2 years, at tremendous unanticipated cost to the
organization. This book will provide a more balanced framework for planning
global development, covering topics such as managing people in distributed
sites, managing a project across locations, mitigating the risk of offshoring,
processes for global development, practical outsourcing guidelines,
collaboration, and communication. Drawing on the author´s vast experience, it
shares best practices and survival strategies from projects of various types
and sizes that involve different continents and diverse cultures.
