Software Engineering Approaches for Offshore and Outsourced Development

1. Decentralized Software Development: Pitfalls and Challenges
Carlo Ghezzi

2. An Empiricist View of Managing Globally Distributed Software Development
Narayan Ramasubbu

3. IBM Industry Practice: Challenges in Offshore Software Development from a Global Delivery Center
Ilario Musio

4. Solution Proposals for Japan-Oriented Offshore Software Development in China
Lei Zhang, Xuan Zhang, Meiping Chai, Yibing Tan, Shigeru Miyake, Yoji Taniguchi, Jun Hosoya, Ryota Mibe

5. Working in Distributed Teams: Challenges, Best Practices, and Guidelines
Arul Mozhi Ganesan, Kayal Vizhi Ganesan

6. Quantitative CMMI Assessment for Offshoring through the Analysis of Project Management Repositories
Thanwadee Sunetnanta, Ni-On Nobprapai, Olly Gotel

7. Predicting Fault-Prone Modules: A Comparative Study
Hao Jia, Fengdi Shu, Ye Yang, Qing Wang

8. Effort Drivers Estimation for Brazilian Geographically Distributed Software Development
Ana Carina M. Almeida, Renata Souza, Gibeon Aquino, Silvio Meira

9. Challenges for Product Roadmapping in Inter-company Collaboration
Tanja Suomalainen, Maarit Tihinen, Päivi Parviainen

10. Global Software Development with Cloud Platforms
Pavan Yara, Ramaseshan Ramachandran, Gayathri Balasubramanian, Karthik Muthuswamy, Divya Chandrasekar

11. Competitive Risk Identification Method for Distributed Teams
Yegor Bugayenko

12. Model-Centric Approach to Software Design and Stakeholder-Specific Architecture Views in Scope of a Financial Institution
Patrick Senti

13. The Role of Contracts in Distributed Development
Martin Nordio, Roman Mitin, Bertrand Meyer, Carlo Ghezzi, Elisabetta Nitto, Giordano Tamburrelli

14. Managing Communication among Geographically Distributed Teams: A Brazilian Case
Ana Carina M. Almeida, Ivaldir H. Farias Junior, Pedro Jorge S. Carneiro

Keywords: Computer Science, Management of Computing and Information Systems, Organization/Planning, Software Engineering