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Project Coordination in Distributed Software Development

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Collaboration in Outsourcing

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Organizations increasingly decide to outsource a part of their activities to countries with lower wages, like India and Malaysia. An example is the outsourcing of software development. The main reasons for offshore software development projects are cost reduction, access to a large workforce, increasing international opportunities, increasing the quality of service, and efficiently making use of the time differences between the countries (Fabriek et al. 2007).

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  1. Koen Huijsman
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  1. Department of Information and Computing Sciences, Utrecht University, Netherlands

    Sjaak Brinkkemper (Professor of Organization and Information) (Professor of Organization and Information)

  2. Department of Information and Computing Sciences, Utrecht University, Netherlands

    Slinger Jansen (Assistant Professor) (Assistant Professor)

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Huijsman, K. (2012). Project Coordination in Distributed Software Development. In: Brinkkemper, S., Jansen, S. (eds) Collaboration in Outsourcing. Technology, Work and Globalization. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230362994_19

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