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A Method to Evaluate the Suitability of Requirements Specifications for Offshore Projects

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  • Sven Overhage
  • Oliver Skroch
  • Klaus Turowski

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Today, even the development of business information systems is subject to the global offshoring trend. With the division of development work in an inter-organizational and intercultural context, requirements specifications become the central means to communicate the development scope as explicitly as possible. The suitability of requirements specifications hence often is mission critical in offshore projects. To assess their suitability, we first present eight quality criteria for requirements specifications. We then discuss five critical compensating factors that may potentially balance out an insufficient specification quality during the offshore project. On this basis, we describe a method to rationally evaluate the suitability of requirements specifications for instantiating an offshore project. We illustrate the application of the method by elaborating on a large case study that has been conducted with an industry partner. The results achieved by applying our method were confirmed during the further course of the actual project. Copyright Gabler Verlag 2010

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  • Sven Overhage & Oliver Skroch & Klaus Turowski, 2010. "A Method to Evaluate the Suitability of Requirements Specifications for Offshore Projects," Business & Information Systems Engineering: The International Journal of WIRTSCHAFTSINFORMATIK, Springer;Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. (GI), vol. 2(3), pages 155-164, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:binfse:v:2:y:2010:i:3:p:155-164
    DOI: 10.1007/s12599-010-0106-8
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