Product Description
Offering key insights into how to manage software development across international boundaries, this book is based on a series of case studies looking at the relationships between firms from North America, the U.K., Japan and Korea with Indian software companies. The authors analyze the multi-faceted challenges encountered in managing these Global Software Alliances (GSAs). They draw on extensive research and experience to offer constructive advice on how to manage G… More >>
Global IT Outsourcing: Software Development across Borders
Tags: across, Borders, Development, Global, Outsourcing, Software
#1 by Bruno C. on May 26, 2010 - 7:24 pm
Great book if you prepare a thesis about IT outsourcing, useless in all other cases.
This is completlely theorotical, written by university professors.
The authors only discuss the theory of the subject. One example among all others : “Many contemporary writers have emphasized the fundamental role of space-place distinction in comptemporary life and globalization.For example Giddens writes that in traditional societies, space and place largely coincided since social intercation occured under conditions of ‘presence’.
1 star because I cannot put less.
Rating: 1 / 5
#2 by W. WEI on May 26, 2010 - 8:11 pm
after reading thru the first chapter, i was totally disappointed with the content of this dry text, it surely tastes like something from a few self-righteous scholars.
Outsourcing is a subject that needs to be dealt with using vivid stories from the trenches and insights gained via painful experiences. Not something the authors of this book did: tons of references from other titles and theoretical analysis.
Rating: 1 / 5