Offshore Software Development: Making It Work

Features

• Cover Type: Hard Cover with 280 pages
• Published by: AUERBACH
• Edition: 1st Edition June 15, 2004
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 0849319439
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0849319433
• Book Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.2 x 0.8 inches
• Weighs: 1.2 pounds

Product Description
In Offshore software Development: Making It Work, hands-on managers of Offshore solutions help you answer these questions: · What is Offshore and why is it an IT imperative? · What do you need to do to successfully evaluate an Offshore solution? · How do you avoid common pitfalls? · How do you confront security and geopolitical risk? · How do you handle issues related to displaced workers? The author applies her considerable experience in the analysis of such Offshore issues as the financial growth of the Offshore industry, keys to success in initiating a program, choosing and managing vendors, risk mitigation, and employee impacts. A detailed program checklist outlines the steps for successful Offshore execution, providing real-world exposure and guidance to a movement that has become a fixture in the IT realm. About the Author Tandy Gold is a 20-year veteran of the technology industry who is focused on entrepreneurial consulting and innovation. As part of her responsibilities in implementing the first Offshore initiative for a large financial institution, she created a monthly Offshore interest group. Comprised of Offshore program managers from Fortune 100 firms, together they represent more than forty years of experience in Offshore.

Reader Reviews
I bought a copy of this book and distributed it to many inside my firm. The general consensus was it is eminently readable, clear, concise, and helpful, and summarizes the learning of many experienced individuals who have actually lived and breathed Offshore program execution. I'm honestly not sure if reviewer John H Kaplan actually read this book. For example, there is a great deal of emphasis on "formal communication" (read: methodology), and how important it is to making Offshore work. Awareness and management of risks, including network security and communcation, financial planning, and even internal communications, are identified and discussed in a pragmatic and accessible fashion. I take strong exception to this kind of emotional lambasting masquerading as objective feedback. This is not the forum to discuss and decide whether Offshore works. Clearly, if Mr. Kaplan is doing Offshore at all, he is doing it unwillingly. But my firm has had great success with Offshore, both financial as well as in quality of delivery, as many have. Don't let what is clearly an emotional rant against Offshore Outsourcing deter you from reading and learning from this helpful, focused, and relevant book. Personally, I found the book more useful than Freidman's "The Earth is Flat" as it is written by an actual practitioner -- for practioners.