Leveraging resources in global software development

摘要: Leveraging global resources for software development is rapidly becoming the norm at Motorola, which has over 25 centers worldwide. Our project, called 3G Trial (Third Generation Cellular System), was first of its scope and significance developed by a engineering team Motorola. Staffing most significant issue we encountered in Trial. We had only about 20 percent required staff available our division headquarters Burlington Heights, Ill., US, needed to find other 80 successfully complete project. Early on, concluded that means project rely on engineers from Motorola's worldwide centers. system with staffing six different countries. Next, integrate people into team. While addressing this challenge, identified key risk factors approaches reduce them. separated five categories Carmel (1999) describes as centrifugal forces pull projects apart. To pass lessons learned article sets out issues faced, resolving them, findings compared research.