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"Global software engineering, implying both internal and outsourced development, is a fast-growing scenario within industry; the growth rates in some sectors are more than 20% per year. However, half of all offshoring activities are cancelled within the first 2 years, at tremendous unanticipated cost to the organization. This book will provide a more balanced framework for planning global development, covering topics such as managing people in distributed sites, managing a project across locations, mitigating the risk of offshoring, processes for global development, practical outsourcing guidelines, collaboration, and communication. Drawing on the author's vast experience, it shares best practices and survival strategies from projects of various types and sizes that involve different continents and diverse cultures"-- "This book will provide a more balanced framework for planning global development, covering topics such as managing people in distributed sites, managing a project across locations, mitigating the risk of offshoring, processes for global development, practical outsourcing guidelines, collaboration, and communication"--

Software developers face the challenge of delivering high-quality and safe software products while managing costs to maintain competitive advantages. Reliable measurement is crucial in addressing this challenge. "Software measurement is an excellent abstraction mechanism for learning what works and what doesn't" (Victor Basili). Measuring software processes and products yields valuable information for evaluating development processes and product quality. Recent successes in software measurement include the evaluation of new development methods, quality improvement programs, tool-support initiatives, and company-wide measurement programs. The German Computer Science Interest (GI) Group of Software Metrics and the Canadian Interest Group in Software Metrics (CIM) have focused on these issues in recent years. Initial research efforts concentrated on defining software metrics, followed by validation and practical applications, alongside critical analyses of the benefits and weaknesses of measurement programs. Key findings in this area have been documented in significant publications, such as Dumke and Zuse's Theory and Practice of Software Measurement, Ebert and Dumke's Software Metrics in Practice, and Lehner, Dumke, and Abran's Software Metrics.