2DAM-WAVE: An Evaluation Method for the WAVE Capability Model

The purpose of this paper is to present the 2DAM-WAVE, an evaluation method that enables organizations to assess their capability in global software development and to discover improvement opportunities. Organizations can be evaluated in two ways, using questionnaires on a web tool, that gives a fast but undetailed result and a more resourceful way, that uses interviews and artifacts analysis for more detailed and extensive results. This evaluation method uses as reference the WAVE capability model, which documents patterns of evolution in the practice of the internal offshoring of software. This evaluation method has been used in a Brazilian unit of a large company and is already scheduled to be applied to an Indian unit of another big company.