Offshore Software Development

2011 ◽  
pp. 213-247
Author(s):  
Stephen Hawk ◽  
Kate M. Kaiser
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Software Development ◽  
Economic Impact ◽  
Success Factors ◽  
Viable Alternative ◽  
Skill Sets ◽  
Critical Success ◽  
Coding Quality ◽  
Remote Management ◽  
Year 2000

The quiet emergence of Year 2000 supplementation of IT skill sets has become an increasingly viable alternative for many companies to lower costs and speed implementation. Offshore software development continues to grow. More countries recognize its economic impact and are providing infrastructure to nurture continued expansion. The challenges of the client/developer contract reach beyond coding quality and remote management. The chapter presents the evolution, rationale, and models used for offshore/nearshore software development with an analysis by major countries engaged in the delivery. Best practices and examples of some firms illustrate the critical success factors of these relationships.

Critical Success Factors of Innovation and Creativity for Global Entrepreneurs

2018 ◽  
pp. 75-91 ◽  
Author(s):  
Flevy Lasrado
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Critical Success Factors ◽  
Success Factors ◽  
The Other ◽  
Keen Interest ◽  
Business Innovation ◽  
Critical Success ◽  
Essential Components

Innovation, is a subject of considerable interest for entrepreneurs. They share a keen interest in learning how to foster innovation and creativity in ways that help firms to create increasing amounts of wealth. Research on innovation and creativity has increased ever since they were considered to be the key to building a competitive advantage. In fact, it is a challenge for organizations to sustain innovation. In this chapter, we explore the factors that entrepreneurs should address to channel innovation in their organizations. Entrepreneurship, on the other hand, requires the funneling and implementation of creative ideas, leading to innovation. This chapter is particularly relevant to global managers seeking to identify inhibitors of creativity and business innovation and how to combat the roadblocks and create a sustainable innovation environment. The chapter discusses the three essential components that must be considered to spur innovation. We highlight the best practices associated with these factors through a case study of three organizations.

Best Practices

2011 ◽  
pp. 142-149 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wesley C. Vestal ◽  
Kimberly Lopez
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Best Practices ◽  
Communities Of Practice ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
Success Factors ◽  
Knowledge Exchange ◽  
Bottom Line ◽  
Critical Success ◽  
Ongoing Work ◽  
The Rich

Organizations continually look for ways to do more with less. One of the most important methods today for helping improve the company bottom line involves linking experts in Communities of Practice to find, share and validate best practices, ideas and solutions. This chapter examines how several best-practice organizations select Communities of Practice, provide support for their ongoing work, develop specialized roles to sustain their efforts, and use technology to bolster the rich tacit knowledge exchange offered by these entities. APQC has also developed a list of critical success factors for Communities of Practice and questions to help organizations develop those factors from its research on Knowledge Management over the last eight years.

Critical success factors for achieving environmental approvals

2019 ◽  
Vol 59 (2) ◽  
pp. 694
Author(s):  
Petrina Raitt
Keyword(s):  
Risk Assessment ◽  
Critical Success Factors ◽  
Success Factors ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Project Team ◽  
Assessment Process ◽  
Skill Sets ◽  
Critical Success ◽  
Impact Reduction ◽  
The Impact

In recent years, industry has experienced increased regulatory scrutiny and public interest in the environmental approvals of oil and gas activities, with common challenges across industry in areas such as impact and risk assessment, stakeholder consultation and risk and impact reduction measure application. Some critical success factors for a project team to meet its targets for environmental approval are: • early planning • access to information • use of appropriately skilled resources. Environmental approvals take time, and scheduling and planning for their preparation and submission should be high on the list of priorities when planning a project. Understanding the regulatory process and knowing what level of information is required at each point is critical. Information to support environmental approvals is available in various forms, including referencing previous approval documentation, reviewing scientific literature and leveraging the skills and experience of project team members. With a common regulator across all offshore petroleum approvals, having ready access to the best and most up-to-date information is critical to meet their expectations. The impact and risk assessment process that underpins the environmental approval is complex and requires a step-by-step approach to establish context (both technical and environmental), identify and assess impacts and propose controls, all while seeking input from stakeholders and monitoring performance. Each of these tasks requires different skill sets, and the key to success is in recognising this and responding by finding the right combination of competency and experience in project team resources. This paper discusses these critical success factors and explores in detail the skill sets that best support impact and risk assessment and subsequent environmental approval for oil and gas activities in Australia.

scholarly journals Doing it Right - Critical Success Factors for Design Thinking Implementation

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 3851-3860
Author(s):  
Danielly De Paula ◽  
Franziska Dobrigkeit ◽  
Kathryn Cormican
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Critical Success Factors ◽  
Success Factors ◽  
Design Thinking ◽  
The Body ◽  
Successful Implementation ◽  
Research Topics ◽  
Critical Success ◽  
Body Of Knowledge

AbstractProficiency in design thinking (DT) can contribute to the success of many companies. Successful implementation of DT can be achieved by identifying its Critical Success Factors (CSFs). Critical success factors are items or actions that should be present in a particular project or situation in order to be successful. However, to date, there has not been any formal study on synthesizing the critical success factors for a successful DT implementation based on existing research. In light of this, the aim of this paper is to develop a conceptual framework that proposes factors that may play a role in influencing the success of the DT implementation. Based on best practices and protocols from thematic analysis, we analyzed and synthesized extant literature in order to recognize research topics from the selected papers and categorize them into specific themes to build a framework. This study significantly contributes to the body of knowledge related to DT by offering the first attempt to identify CSFs for DT implementation, which can allow companies to take required precautions to elude failures or problematic areas and be able to increase the success rate of implementing DT

scholarly journals Modelling the critical success factors of agile software development projects in South Africa

2017 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tawanda B. Chiyangwa ◽  
Ernest Mnkandla
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Software Development ◽  
Critical Success Factors ◽  
Success Factors ◽  
Great Influence ◽  
Development Projects ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Critical Success ◽  
Agile Software ◽  
Organisational Factors

Background: The continued in failure of agile and traditional software development projects have led to the consideration, attention and dispute to critical success factors that are the aspects which are most vital to make a software engineering methodology fruitful. Although there is an increasing variety of critical success factors and methodologies, the conceptual frameworks which have causal relationship are limited.Objective: The objective of this study was to identify and provide insights into the critical success factors that influence the success of software development projects using agile methodologies in South Africa.Method: Quantitative method of collecting data was used. Data were collected in South Africa through a Web-based survey using structured questionnaires.Results: These results show that organisational factors have a great influence on performance expectancy characteristics.Conclusion: The results of this study discovered a comprehensive model that could provide guidelines to the agile community and to the agile professionals.

scholarly journals IT Leadership In A Global Environment: An Analysis Of Critical Success Factors And Software Engineering Best Practices In Context Of India

2011 ◽  
Vol 5 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sanjay Singh ◽  
Karthik Mahadevan
Keyword(s):  
Software Engineering ◽  
Best Practices ◽  
Critical Success Factors ◽  
Success Factors ◽  
Global Market ◽  
Critical Success ◽  
To Come ◽  
Engineering Best Practices ◽  
Entrepreneurial Activities ◽  
It Leadership

Over the past few years, the IT landscape has changed dramatically to facilitate new entrants from emerging economies in the global market. Some nations such as India and China are poised to emerge as IT superpowers in the years to come. In this paper, we attempt analyze some of the critical success factors (CSF) that facilitate the development of IT leaders. Taking India as an example, we explore CSFs like educational system, governmental policies, infrastructure and entrepreneurial activities that are necessary for creating and fostering IT leaders. We conclude by describing the best practices for implementing software engineering projects in an offshore environment.

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