Embedded knowledge and offshore software development

Offshore Software Development (OSD)

Offshore Software Development Outsourcing

Until the global economic downturn of the new millennium, demand for information technology (IT) professionals exceeded supply mostly due to specific skill sets such as integrating legacy applications with Web development, project management , telecommunications, mobile commerce, and enterprise resource planning. More firms are turning externally not only to local vendors but also to services a...

Effect of Mutual Knowledge in Offshore Outsourced Software Development Projects

This paper investigates under what conditions knowledge available to team members leads to positive performance outcomes. We surmise that mutual knowledge that enables the team members to coordinate their work efforts is beneficial for team performance up to a limit after which excess mutual knowledge causes a decline in performance. We further suggest that the inverted U relation between mutua...

Knowledge Management Initiatives in Offshore Software Development: Vendors' Perspectives

Offshore software development (OSD) is a leading business sector in the global IT marketplace, and vendors in different countries are opening software development centres to take advantage of new business opportunities. However, software development is both a technical and a social process in which various software modules are integrated, requiring ongoing interaction and synchronisation of act...

Forces Affecting Offshore Software Development

This paper identifies the forces affecting offshore software development based on a knowledge management perspective. The identified four major forces act along the dimensions of finance, individual education, organizational maturity, and culture. The analysis is validated on cases of European offshoring practice exhibited in the database of the EuroSPI (European Software Process Improvement) s...