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Author: | Zhu, Di |
Title: | An outsourcing management process for a small agile software company |
Publication type: | Master's thesis |
Publication year: | 2010 |
Pages: | 7 + 92 s. Language: eng |
Department/School: | Informaatio- ja luonnontieteiden tiedekunta |
Main subject: | Tietojenkäsittelyoppi (T-76) |
Supervisor: | Lassenius, Casper |
Instructor: | Paasivaara, Maria ; Sulonen, Petteri |
OEVS: | Electronic archive copy is available via Aalto Thesis Database.
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Location: | P1 Ark Aalto | Archive |
Keywords: | outsourcing agile small company project management |
Abstract (eng): | Outsourcing in recent years is becoming a more and more common practice in software development companies. However, it is a very challenge task to make outsourcing effort successful. Despite there are already lots of research and literature being done about this topic, author will address outsourcing challenges form a small agile software company perspective. In this thesis, more attention will be focus on taking specific business context and organization context for consideration. The research method of this thesis is qualitative research based on two previous pilot outsourcing projects of the company. In addition, research data are collected by case study and semi-structured interviews. The main objective of this thesis are describing and analyzing the research findings of previous projects of a specific software company. There are four major problem areas that cause previous projects fail: 1) initiating outsourcing project phase, 2) outsourcing project management process, 3) communication and collaboration, and 4) culture difference. Generally speaking, culture difference is the basic under laying cause of project failure; lack of effective and efficient communication and collaboration didn't provide enough support to outsourcing activities; and lack of systematic project management process cause the ad hoc conditions and is the main reason of project failure. For each aspect, this thesis will describe what had happened during previous project, analysis good/bad practices, cause of failure, and making suggestions on how to improve in future. And finally this thesis will build project management process for future outsourcing project in the company, which based on agile methodologies. |
ED: | 2010-09-03 |
INSSI record number: 40402
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