Global software development

作者：James D. Herbsleb, Deependra Moitra · 发表于：IEEE Software · 年份：2001 · DOI：10.1109/52.914732 · 被引用次数：1052 · 研究领域：Software Engineering Techniques and Practices、Software Engineering Research、Open Source Software Innovations

The last several decades have witnessed a steady, irreversible trend toward the globalization of business, and of software-intensive high-technology businesses in particular. Economic forces are relentlessly turning national markets into global markets and spawning new forms of competition and cooperation that reach across national boundaries. This change is having a profound impact not only on marketing and distribution but also on the way produces are conceived, designed, constructed, tested, and delivered to customers. The author considers how software development is increasingly a multisite, multicultural, globally distributed undertaking.