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Develop Globally, Manage Centrally Centralized control and comprehensive visibility enable companies to leverage the efficiencies of geographically distributed development without the traditional headaches. Executive Summary In today’s fast-paced markets, software development projects are increasingly being outsourced to overseas programmers. This practice, known as geographically distributed development (GDD), saves money, time, and IT resources, while increasing business agility and expanding an organization’s global reach to partners, talent, and markets. However, GDD comes with several drawbacks, including a lack of thorough project visibility, cultural and communication barriers, and an expensive collaboration tool infrastructure, usually in the form of a replicated server approach—which is well known for its latency problems, preventing true distributed collaboration. Centralized GDD, where all the project assets are stored on a centralized server and changes are updated globally as they happen in near-real time, enables enterprises to leverage all the benefits of GDD while maintaining tight control over the entire development process, thus creating an environment conducive to agile business practices. Borland’s Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) tools approach GDD in a unique and highly efficient manner, enabling enterprises to manage all the program assets from a central server and push out updates to securely connected remote caches around the world. Effective collaboration is achieved through lightweight remote caching agents that are “trickle charged” with changes from the central repository in near-real time, thus keeping the entire project up to date and free of conflicts while utilizing significantly less bandwidth than traditional methods. The Borland® StarTeam® platform and Caliber® Analyst tools enable businesses to control their entire application lifecycle—from requirements definition to distributed development to iterative releases—seamlessly and efficiently. In this whitepaper you will learn how to: • Eliminate update delays from your remote project contributors • Avoid expensive duplicate hardware setups and associated admin costs • Keep project assets secure while avoiding merge conflicts • Develop trusted, centrally managed and reusable code components Borland customers are realizing significant savings with StarTeam-driven GDD projects, to the tune of 60-80 percent over competing platforms. Borland’s services include migration assistance and delivery of complete ALM solutions for today’s competitive enterprises. Introduction Competitive enterprises are no longer limited to operating in a specific city, region, or country. The global marketplace is truly global, with smart companies leveraging resources around the world to do business internationally, with vast computing and communications infrastructures linking disparate elements of the software development operation. The days when companies ‘bought and sold local’ are long gone. If development talent is more cost-efficient overseas, that’s where development tasks will be routed. The same applies to customer service, manufacturing, and even basic data entry; the most competitive bid wins, regardless of physical location. According to research firm IDC, more than 80 percent of enterprises develop software overseas. Why? There are a number of reasons: • Utilizing geographically distributed development (GDD) can cost far less than hiring and retaining local talent. http://www.stickyminds.com/WhitePaper/BorlandWhitePapers.asp?ci=7177

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Better Software - December 2008 Contents Mark Your Calendar Contributors eLightenment Technically Speaking Code Craft Test Connection Management Chronicles What's a Manager to Do? Six Thinking Hats for Testers The Key to Good Interviewing 2008 Salary Survey Product Announcements 10 Things You Might Not Know About … The Last Word Ad Index

Better Software - December 2008

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