Highlighting Management Issues Affecting Outsourcing in Pakistan's Software Industry
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Misbah Zahoor, Ayesha Tariq, Tayyba Zahoor, 
Muhammad Abbas, Saad RehmanAuthors Info & Claims
Misbah Zahoor, Ayesha Tariq, Tayyba Zahoor, Muhammad Abbas, Saad RehmanAuthors Info & ClaimsPages 45 - 50
Abstract
Software Projects Outsourcing is used extensively by different organizations as a sourcing strategy today and it becomes a crucial issue in achieving specific objective. This paper studies the impact of management issues on the effectiveness of outsourcing of software projects in industries of Pakistan. Outsourcing is an imperative trend in now a day's business environment and is vital for us to well comprehend what factors influence more on outsourcing. On basis of literature review this paper recognizes main management issues that the client organization needs to possess to efficiently outsource software projects. Quantitative data from different several software fields is utilized to support the findings that what factors are more influencing during outsourcing for different industries. Different factors are identified and highlighted to catch the weaknesses which occur during successful outsourcing of software projects.
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