Title:
Software
Development Projects in Multi-Site and
Multi-Cultural Environments: A Discourse of Challenges
Abstract: There
is a growing interest across the globe for software
that are developed from foreign sources for a variety of reasons,
including
cost advantages, reliability, amongst others. This trend of developing
software
or using collaborating partners from abroad to develop software
products may
present some challenges. In fact, it is known that when businesses or
organisations leave their local sphere of operation for foreign lands,
they are
usually faced with huge difficulties. For the same reasoning,
challenges could
arise when software products or IT systems are sourced from or
developed in
conjunction with partners in multi-site and multi-cultural
environments. In
this chapter, we will identity some of such challenges and offer
suggestions as
to how they could be tackled. This discourse may be useful for entities
involved in such ventures. In this chapter, we will develop a
conceptual
framework to guide our discourse. The implications of the discourse for
research and practice will be outlined.
Author: Princely
Ifinedo