Applying the OUTSHORE approach for risk minimisation in offshore outsourcing of Software Development projects
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Outsourcing a software development project offshore is risky. Nonetheless, multiple software companies do this so as to lower costs or shorten the development period. This paper presents OUTSHORE a novel approach to manage the inherent risk of offshore outsourcing. We demonstrate the results of a qualitative analysis based on twenty nine interviews. We develop fifteen hypotheses which define decision and risk factors in software development offshore outsourcing. Additionally these factors are used to build up decision support and risk controlling models that help minimize the risk of offshore software development projects.
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