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Offshore software development has greatly influenced competitiveness among IT companies in the last decade. Despite the fact that there are matured and developed offshoring methodologies, there is an ongoing tendency to look for new ways of improving them. Major IT corporations successfully rely on their offshore delivery centers for bridging the gap between communication and infrastructure boundaries. However, projects tend to fail, so problems have to be considered that arise between on- and offshore parts within the same corporation. Based on seven case studies from the industry, this paper describes experiences and challenges faced during the execution of offshore application development between IBM Switzerland and IBM India. Additionally, approaches on how they can be solved are proposed.
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Musio, I. (2009). IBM Industry Practice: Challenges in Offshore Software Development from a Global Delivery Center. In: Gotel, O., Joseph, M., Meyer, B. (eds) Software Engineering Approaches for Offshore and Outsourced Development. SEAFOOD 2009. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 35. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02987-5_3
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