An exploratory study on strategic software development outsourcing
Paper in proceeding, 2017
In today's software industry many business organizations are realizing that Software Development Outsourcing (SDO) is an imperative and strategic step for their system operation success. Many organizations have or are in the process of implementing such business transformation. This study is to investigate the status quo of strategic SDO in the software industry. To conduct this research, a mixed method exploratory study that consists of a survey and multiple cases has been adopted. The research unveils how industrial software organizations capitalize on SDO as a strategic tool in their product development.
Strategic SDO management
Operation success
Impact
SDO decision
Strategic software development outsourcing
Author
Er Nie
University of Gothenburg
Imed Hammouda
Chalmers, Computer Science and Engineering (Chalmers), Software Engineering (Chalmers)
University of Gothenburg
Proceedings - 2017 IEEE 12th International Conference on Global Software Engineering, ICGSE 2017
106-115 7976695
12th IEEE International Conference on Global Software Engineering, ICGSE 2017
Buenos Aires, Argentina,
Buenos Aires, Argentina,
Subject Categories
Reliability and Maintenance
Business Administration
Software Engineering
DOI
10.1109/ICGSE.2017.10