Context Planning and managing task allocation in Global Software Development (GSD)
projects is both critical and challenging. To date, a number of models that support task …

A revised and updated look at the issues relating to the sourcing of systems and business
processes with new thematic case studies, examining the client's and the vendor's …

Globalization is having a deep impact on today's world economy. One of the most affected
industries is the software industry. Recently, global software development (GSD) has gained …

Follow the sun (FTS) has interesting appeal—hand off work at the end of every day from one
site to the next, many time zones away, in order to speed up product development. Although …

Follow-the-sun (FTS) software development is a strategy used to reduce the length of
software projects that are developed across globally distributed locations. However, due to …

As software projects continue to grow in scale, being able to maximize the work that
developers can carry out in parallel as a set of concurrent development tasks, without …

The Fsprit/OMI-COSY project defines transaction-levels to set-up the exchange of IP's in
separating function from architecture and body-behavior from proprietary interfaces. These …

Planning and managing the task allocation process in offshore software development
outsourcing environment plays an important role in order to develop the good quality …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to find good values of onsite-offshore team strength;
number of hours of communication between business users and onsite team and between …

One of the most important activities in software project planning involves scheduling tasks
and assigning them to developers. Project managers must decide who will do what and …