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Outsourcing in Global Software Development: Effects of Temporal Location and Methodologies

URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2602.08084v1
Date: Sun, 08 Feb 2026 18:57:49 GMT
Title: Outsourcing in Global Software Development: Effects of Temporal Location and Methodologies
Authors: Mark Looi, Marc Szepan,
Abstract summary: We focus on customers that contract software development to vendors in temporally nearshore or far offshore locations.<n>We conducted a survey to determine the effect of temporal distance on overall success, costs, project management effort, schedule, quality, communication problems, and other outcomes of interest to managers.<n>The results show that nearshore development is advantageous for overall success, quality, reduced PM effort, maintaining schedule, higher quality, and engendering fewer communication problems.
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Abstract: Developing software globally using outsourced resources has become a common practice, with project teams often distributed in different time zones. In this study, we focus on customers that contract software development to vendors in temporally nearshore or far offshore locations. We conducted a survey to determine the effect of temporal distance on overall success, costs, project management effort, schedule, quality, communication problems, and other outcomes of interest to managers. In the survey of 80 customers and interviews with 6 of them, we also investigated the effect of software development methodology on the same outcomes. The results show that nearshore development is advantageous for overall success, quality, reduced PM effort, maintaining schedule, higher quality, and engendering fewer communication problems. Development methodology appears to only influence higher costs. We assess our findings in the context of prior GSE research and provide practical advice for customers of outsourced global software development, chief of which is to favor nearshore for communication-intensive or Agile projects.

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