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Software Engineering Approaches for Offshore and Outsourced Development - Second International Conference, SEAFOOD 2008, Zurich, Switzerland, July 2-3, 2008, Revised Papers (Paperback, 2009 ed.)
Kay Berkling, Mathai Joseph, Bertrand Meyer, Martin Nordio
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Majoreconomicupheavalscanhavethesortofe?ectthatSchumpeterforesaw60
yearsagoascreativedestruction.Inscienceandtechnology,equivalentupheavals
resultfromeitherscienti?crevolutions(asobservedbyKuhn)ortheintroduction
of what Christensen calls disruptive technologies. And in software
engineering, there has been no technology more disruptive than
outsourcing. That it should so quickly reach maturity and an
unparalleled scale is truly remarkable; that it should now be
called to demonstrate its sustainability in the current ?nancial
turmoil is the challenge that will prove whether and how it will
endure. Early signs under even the bleak market conditions of the
last 12 months are that it will not only survive, it will ?rmly
establish its role across the world of business. Outsourcing throws
into sharp focus the entire software engineering life- cle. Topics
as diverse as requirements analysis, concurrency and model-checking
need to ?nd a composite working partnership in software engineering
practice. This con?uence arises from need, not dogma, and the
solutions required are those that will have the right e?ect on the
associated activities in the world of the application: e.g.,
reducing the time for a transaction or making the results of a
complex analysis available in real-time. While the business of
outsourcing continues to be studied, the engineering innovations
that make it compelling are constantly changing. It is in this
milieu that this series of conferences has placed itself.
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Software Engineering Approaches for Offshore and Outsourced Development - Third International Conference, SEAFOOD 2009, Zurich, Switzerland, July 2-3, 2009, Proceedings (Paperback, 2009 ed.)
Olly Gotel, Mathai Joseph, Bertrand Meyer
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SEAFOOD 2009: Enabling Global Partnerships to Deliver on Business
Needs Companies have been outsourcing areas of software development
work for many years, either because of the engineering challenges
or because the outsourced aspect is not central to their core
business. A profound transformation has been a?ecting this model
over recent years: a massive transfer of development - tivities
from the USA and Europe to a skilled labor force in
service-providing countries. This transformation has been driven by
the demands of a global bu- ness climate seeking to increase the
value delivery of IT investment. However, the ability to realize
this value can prove problematic in practice. Of particular concern
are the hidden costs of globally distributed models of working,
such as understanding and communicating the true business needs
across organizational and cultural boundaries. To address such
issues, o?shore outsourcing requires di?erent support from
in-housedevelopmentandthismeansadaptingfamiliartechniques,processesand
tools to this setting, as well as perhaps creating innovative new
ones. Coupled with this industry transformation there is hence a
pressing need to re-examine
thosesoftwareengineeringapproachesthateither facilitate orimpede
this model of working. With an inevitable focus on the economy in
2009, business decisions regarding the sourcing of software
development projects will come under close scrutiny. It will become
increasingly critical to design global partnerships that both
clarify cost/bene?ts and enable delivery on business needs.
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