OUTSHORE Maturity Model: Assistance for Software Offshore Outsourcing Decisions

Offshore outsourcing software development is increasingly used by software industry. An outsourced software development project is geographically distributed software development. Compared with traditional ways of software development (in-house), the geographically distributed software development is more risky making the actual attainment of the expected results uncertain. Although the failure in an offshore outsourcing software development project is usually caused by various reasons and one of the major challenges is the geographical distance, we argue that the risk avoidance of an outshore software development project should start before the software development begins. This may be done by measuring the offshore outsourcing suitability of the software project and of the offshore outsourcing company. Therefore we have developed the so-called OUTSHORE Maturity