Software development is increasingly done in distributed projects across geographical borders, timezones, company and national cultures.  Global software development gives rise both to new challenges and opportunities. 

The meeting will have two brief talks, and then an open discussion.
The first talk will focus on areas of concern when making offshoring decisions, based on research results from Sweden. The second talk will present actual experience from organizing multi-site development with international teams at Fara.

This meeting will be in English.

18:30 Registrering

19:00 Velkommen og intro

19:10 The Value of Offshoring for Scandinavian Software Companies
Darja Smite, Blekinge Institute of Technology

Offshoring has become a norm in large software organizations, and small and medium businesses are targeted too. Nontheless, the results of offshore experiences vary from tremendous success to total failure.
This presentation will focus on the areas of concern when making offshore decisions, and different decision situations. Cost benefits will be weighed aganst the factors that contribute to the value of producing software in a particular location. To make argumentation more valuable, the line of thinking about offshoring will be illustrated by axperiences from related research literature, and own empirical studies conducted at Ericsson in Sweden.

20:00 Experiences from multi-site development projects in Fara
Jørgen Brudal Sandnes, Fara

Fara has software development in teams located in Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark and Poland. The motivations for this is complex, and the team structure creates opportunities and challenges. How do we cope?

21:00 Avslutning

Tid: Onsdag 21.september kl. 19.00-21.00
Sted: SP Andersens veg 15B, Trondheim

Arrangør: Faggruppen Smidig utvikling

Om foredragsholderne:
Darja Smite
Darja Šmite is a Senior Researcher at Blekinge Institute of Technology, where she is leading a nationally funded research project on the short term and long term effects of offshoring decisions for Swedish software companies. Her major interests are related to global software engineering, agile development, and software process improvement. Prior to her career as a researcher, she has been working as a software engineer, requirements analyst, project manager and consultant in several software houses in Latvia.

Jørgen Brudal Sandnes
Jørgen Brudal Sandnes is leading the software development at Fara. He has a background as a consultant, developer, architect and team leader. He has a Master degree in Computer Science from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, and is currently pursuing a Master in Technology Management, with focus on topics including knowledge management, organizational development ang globalization.