Patterns of Evolution in the Practice of Distributed Software Development in Wholly Owned Subsidiaries: A Preliminary Capability Model

Author

Prikladnicki, Rafael ; Damian, Daniela ; Audy, Jorge Luis Nicolas

Author_Institution

PUCRS, Sao Vicente

fYear

2008

fDate

17-20 Aug. 2008

Firstpage

99

Lastpage

108

Abstract

In this paper, we describe a preliminary capability model that captures patterns of evolution in the practice of distributed software development in internal offshoring projects. In our research we seek to understand how the practices of organizations involved in the internal offshoring of software development evolve over time, from a software engineering perspective, and from the point of view of the subsidiaries. Based on a combination of qualitative and quantitative methods, we propose a capability model that encompasses the evolution of software development activities within and among several subsidiaries owned by an organization.

Keywords

Capability Maturity Model; outsourcing; project management; software development management; software prototyping; team working; capability maturity model; distributed software development; evolution pattern; internal offshoring project team; software engineering perspective; Companies; Computer industry; Context modeling; Context-aware services; Costs; Instruments; Outsourcing; Portfolios; Programming; Software engineering; Distributed software development; capability model; internal offshoring; offshore outsourcing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Global Software Engineering, 2008. ICGSE 2008. IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Bangalore

Print_ISBN

978-0-7695-3280-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICGSE.2008.36

Filename

4638657