Global Software Development: Where are the Benefits?
The article presents a discussion of offshore outsourcing as a business strategy in the computer software development industry. Known as Global Software Development (GSD), this approach is said to be an increasingly standard practice. Its theoretical advantages include the possibility of 24-hour pro...
| Publicado en: | Communications of the ACM Vol. 52; no. 8; pp. 127 - 132 |
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Association for Computing Machinery
Aug2009
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