Last week, Reksoft representatives attended the first open RIGHT seminar, held in Lappeenranta, Finland, titled "The Influence of Context on Software Development Practices: from Product Design to Release Planning and Process Improvement". The seminar covered a recent research study on the challenges a software company faces today, when the global push for outsourcing of software development and testing is so strong.
The academics from the Lappeenranta University of Technology, South Carelia Polytechnic, and Technology Business Research Center, made excellent presentations on the research conducted, on the case companies studied, the data collected, and commented on the observations made.
Among the not-so-much expected findings, concerning the troubles in software development outsourcing engagements, was the so-called ‘excessive customer orientation', where the contracted vendor is so much occupied with following the processes of its client, that all of its own guidelines and practices are completely forgotten. This gives us, vendors, little something to think about, doesn't it? :)
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