Abstract :
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
Keywords :
DP industry; software engineering; business globalization; competition; economic forces; global software development; marketing; software industry; software-intensive high-technology business; Cultural differences; Global communication; Globalization; Investments; Product design; Programming; Surface resistance; Testing; Turning; Virtual groups;
