Globalization
and business requirements in an aggressively competitive world
demands for the development of a number of technologically enabled
services and software. To cater for such requirements, organizations
either need to increase the strength of professionals in their
workforce or need to outsource the work to external organizations
with the expertise in the field. However, the development and vast
use of Internet has led to the integration of web applications in the
business process paving way for the organizations to make use of
virtual teams.
A
virtual or a geographically distributed team is made up of members
who work across organizational and geographical boundaries and
different time zones. For these distributed
software development
teams,
communication is the key and needs to be well connected through
corporate networks or the Internet. The team members though distantly
located work on the same project or product. For the organizations,
involved in product R&D services, the distributed development
teams are reason for proximity to customers, work clusters or cost
advantages.
The
array of software development projects undertaken by organizations
for various web development services also requires deep expertise and
understanding of the market trends and latest technologies. One way
of acquiring this is through the use of offshore
development services.
Web development services like mobile
application development
services,
customized application development and payment gateway integration
are taken up by the offshore development services teams.
These
geographically distributed teams irrespective of being part of
offshore or nearshore
development services,
offer the organizations advantages such as improved productivity,
knowledge transfer and greater market position. Nevertheless, these
teams are not away from challenges such as lack of communication and
poor leadership besides n incompetent team member. However,
with technological evolution, the networked teams can stay connected
through threaded discussions, web conferencing, instant messages and
blogs besides sharing the repositories.
The
leaders in the field of application lifecycle management have
designed and developed agile methods for a faster product R&D
service at a global level irrespective of the type of application
With the teams distributed around the globe, combining the agile
methodology with the top of the line PLM tools helps distributed
software development
teams
deliver quality products. The collaborative platform and its
framework facilitate a quicker product lifecycle completion, while
bringing around a 30% reduction in overhead costs.
The
distributed
software development
becoming
the trend in the globalized environment, it becomes necessary to
ensure that every team member is equally responsible to achieve the
project goal. With the help of scrum-based distributed R&D
software and a platform of integrated open source tools for
collaboration, tracking and end-to-end visibility of the product life
cycle, it is possible to provide the developers real-time access to
the developmental process.
Also
read on - Application
lifecycle management,
Product
lifecycle management