Review of Handbook of Research on Software Engineering and Productivity Technologies: Implications of Globalization

摘要

As stated in the foreword of this book, software industry can be seen as the heart of the service industry transformation. Not in vain, in the current competitive scenario, IT structures are increasingly asked to "participate" in business development and innovation, rather than merely being a "support" for value chain activities (Popoli & Popoli, 2009). And in the IT field, software poses as a critical element. Due to increasing globalization tendencies in the organizations environment, software devel-opment is evolving from a single site development to a multiple location team environment (Hernandez-Lopez et al., 2010).