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- Title
Considerations for Effective Requirements Analysis in Offshore Software Development Projects: Lessons from Multi-method Research.
- Authors
Yadav, Vanita; Nath, Dhruv; Adya, Monica; Sridhar, Varadharajan
- Abstract
Offshore software development using geographically distributed teams is an accepted practice in software development today. However, software development companies have largely only offshored the software development lifecycle's coding and testing phases. However, lately, offshoring the requirements analysis (RA) phase has become increasingly viable for several reasons including the software industry's maturation and improved communication technologies. However, successfully evaluating this highly interactive phase between geographically dispersed client and provider teams requires special considerations. In this paper, we present practical insights garnered from conducting experiments and surveys of IS professionals from the Indian software industry and from extensively examining the literature. Our findings confirm that, subject to certain best practices, one can effectively conduct RA in software projects offshore. We present these practices as lessons learned and provide related recommendations for industry and academia.
- Subjects
INDIA; COMPUTER software development; REQUIREMENTS engineering; OFFSHORE outsourcing; INFORMATION storage &; retrieval systems; COMPUTER software industry
- Publication
Communications of the Association for Information Systems, 2016, Vol 39, p188
- ISSN
1529-3181
- Publication type
Article