Collaborative software development technologies enable the several categories of people involved in the software development process to communicate and solve problems better. They allow the developers and customers to coordinate activities and share information across multiple development environments. They also make possible the distribution of the software development process to several locations geographically separated.
Collaborative software technologies stand at the basis of the offshore development process, allowing people from several locations to work together seamlessly, putting to best use all the resources, no matter from where, and diffusing the work process without any loss of information or quality.
For a collaborative software development process to be successful, it must meet the following criteria:
- define precisely processes and standards
- state clear objectives
- allow for multiple iterations
Today, the IT market is very dynamic, very complex and expands rapidly. It becomes increasingly inefficient to have people specialized in each and every domain and subdomain of software development.
IT companies looking to expand and grow can take advantage of these unique characteristics: they train part of their resources in very specialized and narrow domains and then use the collaborative software development model in their partnerships with external companies which employ the specialized services as needed.
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