Research on DQFD and Cross-Cultural Communication in Outsourcing Software Requirement Change Control

Author

Xiong, Wei ; Wu, ZhiXin

Author_Institution

Sch. of Manage., Zhejiang Univ., Hangzhou, China

fYear

2009

fDate

11-13 Dec. 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

Currently it is an important trend that outsourcing software has become the world´s software industry development. At present many domestic software companies try to do outsourcing. But how to effectively control the outsourcing software requirements change has become a key point of outsourcing software success. Considering changing characteristics of software requirements, this paper seeks an effective software requirements change control method. How to effectively control changing software requirement is the key to achieve the software quality. This paper proposes dynamic quality function deployment (DQFD) method and leads DQFD in the process of software development. Combined with a cross-cultural communication theory, this paper discusses realizing the outsourcing software requirement change control by DQFD and cross-cultural communication.

Keywords

outsourcing; quality function deployment; software management; software quality; DQFD; cross-cultural communication; domestic software company; dynamic quality function deployment method; outsourcing software requirement change control; software development; software industry development; software quality; Communication system control; Computer industry; Cross-cultural communication; Cultural differences; Economic forecasting; Environmental economics; Outsourcing; Programming; Quality function deployment; Software quality;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computational Intelligence and Software Engineering, 2009. CiSE 2009. International Conference on

Conference_Location

Wuhan

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4507-3

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-4507-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CISE.2009.5367152

Filename

5367152