Software Engineering Approaches for Offshore and Outsourced Development

1. Front Matter

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2. Invited Keynote Speakers

   1. Decentralized Software Development: Pitfalls and Challenges

      • Carlo Ghezzi

      Pages 1-2

   2. An Empiricist View of Managing Globally Distributed Software Development

      • Narayan Ramasubbu

      Pages 3-3

3. Industry Challenges and Best Practices

   1. IBM Industry Practice: Challenges in Offshore Software Development from a Global Delivery Center

      • Ilario Musio

      Pages 4-13

   2. Solution Proposals for Japan-Oriented Offshore Software Development in China

      • Lei Zhang, Xuan Zhang, Meiping Chai, Yibing Tan, Shigeru Miyake, Yoji Taniguchi et al.

      Pages 14-24

   3. Working in Distributed Teams: Challenges, Best Practices, and Guidelines

      • Arul Mozhi Ganesan, Kayal Vizhi Ganesan

      Pages 25-31

4. Measurement and Estimation

   1. Quantitative CMMI Assessment for Offshoring through the Analysis of Project Management Repositories

      • Thanwadee Sunetnanta, Ni-On Nobprapai, Olly Gotel

      Pages 32-44

   2. Predicting Fault-Prone Modules: A Comparative Study

      • Hao Jia, Fengdi Shu, Ye Yang, Qing Wang

      Pages 45-59

   3. Effort Drivers Estimation for Brazilian Geographically Distributed Software Development

      • Ana Carina M. Almeida, Renata Souza, Gibeon Aquino, Silvio Meira

      Pages 60-65

5. Strategic Concerns and Technologies

   1. Challenges for Product Roadmapping in Inter-company Collaboration

      • Tanja Suomalainen, Maarit Tihinen, Päivi Parviainen

      Pages 66-80

   2. Global Software Development with Cloud Platforms

      • Pavan Yara, Ramaseshan Ramachandran, Gayathri Balasubramanian, Karthik Muthuswamy, Divya Chandrasekar

      Pages 81-95

   3. Competitive Risk Identification Method for Distributed Teams

      • Yegor Bugayenko

      Pages 96-101

6. Communication and Specification

   1. Model-Centric Approach to Software Design and Stakeholder-Specific Architecture Views in Scope of a Financial Institution

      • Patrick Senti

      Pages 102-116

   2. The Role of Contracts in Distributed Development

      • Martin Nordio, Roman Mitin, Bertrand Meyer, Carlo Ghezzi, Elisabetta Di Nitto, Giordano Tamburrelli

      Pages 117-129

   3. Managing Communication among Geographically Distributed Teams: A Brazilian Case

      • Ana Carina M. Almeida, Ivaldir H. de Farias Junior, Pedro Jorge de S. Carneiro

      Pages 130-135

7. Back Matter

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SEAFOOD 2009: Enabling Global Partnerships to Deliver on Business Needs Companies have been outsourcing areas of software development work for many years, either because of the engineering challenges or because the outsourced aspect is not central to their core business. A profound transformation has been a?ecting this model over recent years: a massive transfer of development - tivities from the USA and Europe to a skilled labor force in service-providing countries. This transformation has been driven by the demands of a global bu- ness climate seeking to increase the value delivery of IT investment. However, the ability to realize this value can prove problematic in practice. Of particular concern are the hidden costs of globally distributed models of working, such as understanding and communicating the true business needs across organizational and cultural boundaries. To address such issues, o?shore outsourcing requires di?erent support from in-housedevelopmentandthismeansadaptingfamiliartechniques,processesand tools to this setting, as well as perhaps creating innovative new ones. Coupled with this industry transformation there is hence a pressing need to re-examine thosesoftwareengineeringapproachesthateither facilitate orimpede this model of working. With an inevitable focus on the economy in 2009, business decisions regarding the sourcing of software development projects will come under close scrutiny. It will become increasingly critical to design global partnerships that both clarify cost/bene?ts and enable delivery on business needs.

• CMMI
• Distributed Software Development
• Extreme Programming
• Global Software Development
• Offshoring
• Outsourcing
• Software Best Practices
• Software Engineering
• Software Measurement
• Software Process Management
• design
• object oriented design
• project management

• Pace University, New York City, USA

  Olly Gotel

• Tata Consultancy Services, Pune, India

  Mathai Joseph

• Department of Computer Science, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

  Bertrand Meyer

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