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Critical Success Factors for Managing Offshore Software Development Projects

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  • Ulrich Remus
  • Martin Wiener

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Early experiences with offshore software development (OSD) have not been consistently positive. There have been abundant media reports of various companies whose offshore projects were not able to live up to expectations. It would appear that this can be traced back to insufficient project management by the offshore project partners. In this context, some research has been carried out on the critical success factors of offshore software development projects from the perspective of U.S. clients as well as Indian and European providers. However, there is little research on these critical success factors that examines their relevance and management. This paper identifies and structures the critical success factors of offshore software development projects, and more importantly, it analyzes the relevance of the identified factors from several perspectives, such as type of company, company size, geographical location, project type, size and experience. Our findings are in particular relevant for companies in countries where English is not the first language and where OSD is still an emerging field.

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  • Ulrich Remus & Martin Wiener, 2009. "Critical Success Factors for Managing Offshore Software Development Projects," Journal of Global Information Technology Management, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 12(1), pages 6-29, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:ugitxx:v:12:y:2009:i:1:p:6-29
    DOI: 10.1080/1097198X.2009.10856483
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    1. Sven Overhage & Oliver Skroch & Klaus Turowski, 2010. "A Method to Evaluate the Suitability of Requirements Specifications for Offshore Projects," Business & Information Systems Engineering: The International Journal of WIRTSCHAFTSINFORMATIK, Springer;Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. (GI), vol. 2(3), pages 155-164, June.
    2. Xiaomo Liu & G. Alan Wang & Aditya Johri & Mi Zhou & Weiguo Fan, 2014. "Harnessing global expertise: A comparative study of expertise profiling methods for online communities," Information Systems Frontiers, Springer, vol. 16(4), pages 715-727, September.
    3. Shiu-Li Huang & Ming-Yen Kuo, 2020. "Critical success factors in the sharing economy: a customer perspective," Service Business, Springer;Pan-Pacific Business Association, vol. 14(4), pages 553-576, December.

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