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Chapter 1 : Deciding to Outsource
 
The Only Sustainable Edge: Why Business Strategy Depends on Productive Friction and Dynamic Specialization. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 2005
-Hagel, John, III, and John Seeley Brown.

The Future of Work :How the New Order of Business Will Shape Your Organization, Your Management Style, and Your Life. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 2004.
Malone, Thomas W.

Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling High-Tech Products to Mainstream Customers. New York: HarperBusiness, 1999. Reuters. "Survey: Outsourcing Saves Less Than Claimed." April 13, 2006, ZDNet
Moore, Geoffrey A.

Chapter 2 : where to Outsource
The Anglosphere Challenge: Why the English-Speaking Nations Will Lead the Way in the Twenty-First Century. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2004. BRASSCOM. Brazilian Association of Software and Services Export Companies. Bennett, James C.

Mr. China: A Memoir. New York: HarperBusiness, 2005. Czech ICT Alliance. Czech Trade. Clissold, Tim.

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Chapter 3 : How to Select your Outsourcing Vendor
Seven Kinds of Smart: Identifying and Developing Your Multiple Intelligences. Rev. ed. New York: Plume, 1999.
Armstrong, Thomas.

The Outsourcing Revolution: Why It Makes Sense and How to Do It Right. Chicago: Dearborn Trade, 2004.
Corbett, Michael F.

Professional Design Patterns in VB .NET: Building Adaptable Applications. Berkeley, CA: Apress, 2003.
Fischer, Tom, John Slater, Pete Stromquist, and Chaur G. Wu.

Head First Design Patterns: Cambridge, MA: O'Reilly Media, 2004.
Elisabeth Freeman, Eric Freeman, Bert Bates, Kathy Sierra

Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software. Boston: Addison-Wesley Professional, 1995. Goleman, Daniel. Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ. Reprint, New York: Bantam, 1997.
Gamma, Erich, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, and John Vlissides (a.k.a. the Gang of Four).

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Design Patterns in C#: Boston: Addison-Wesley Professional, 2004.
Metsker, Steven John.

Chapter 5 : Describing your Software for Outsourcing
 
Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change. Boston: Addison-Wesley Professional, 1999.
Beck, Kent.

Software Cost Estimation with COCOMO II (with CD-ROM). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall PTR, 2000.

The Unified Modeling Language User Guide: 2nd Edition. Boston: Addison-Wesley Professional, 2005.
Booch, Grady, James Rumbaugh, and Ivar Jacobson

Writing Effective Use Cases: Boston: Addison-Wesley Professional, 2000.
Cockburn, Alistair

User Stories Applied: For Agile Software Development. Boston: Addison-Wesley Professional, 2004.
Cohn, Mike.

Beyond Software Architecture: Creating and Sustaining Winning Solutions. Boston: Addison-Wesley Professional, 2003.
Hohmann, Luke.

Practical Software Requirements: A Manual of Content and Style. Greenwich, CT: Manning Publications, 1998.
Kovitz, Benjamin L.

Chapter 6 : Controlling your Outsourced Software development
 
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Agile Modeling: Effective Practices for Extreme Programming and the Unified Process. New York: Wiley, 2002.
Ambler, Scott W.

Agile Software Development: Principles, Patterns, and Practices: Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2002.
Martin, Robert C.

Lean Software Development: An Agile Toolkit for Software Development Managers. Boston: Addison- Wesley Professional, 2003.
Poppendieck, Mary, and Tom Poppendieck.

Integrating Agile Development in the Real World: Hingham, MA: Charles River Media, 2004.
Schuh, Peter.

Agile Software Development with Scrum: Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2001.
Schwaber, Ken, and Mike Beedle.

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Chapter 7 : Software Outsourcing Metrics
 
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The Balanced Scorecard: Translating Strategy into Action. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 1996.
Kaplan, Robert S., and David P. Norton.

Practical Software Measurement: Objective Information for Decision Makers. Boston: Addison-Wesley Professional, 2001.
McGarry, John, David Card, Cheryl Jones, Beth Layman, Elizabeth Clark, Joseph Dean, and Fred Hall.

Balanced Scorecard Step-by-Step: Maximizing Performance and Maintaining Results. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 2002.
Niven Paul R

Five Core Metrics: The Intelligence Behind Successful Software Management. New York: Dorset House, 2003.
Putnam, Lawrence H, and Ware Myers.

Chapter 8 : Protecting your Intellectual Property
 
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The Cathedral and the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary. Cambridge, MA: O'Reilly Media, 2001.
Raymond, Eric S.

Understanding Open Source and Free Software Licensing: Cambridge, MA: O'Reilly Media, 2004.
St. Laurent, Andrew M.

Chapter 9 : Outsourcing your Quality assurance
 
Agile Software Development : Boston: Addison-Wesley Professional, 2001.
Cockburn, Alistair.

Java Testing and Design: From Unit Testing to Automated Web Tests. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall PTR, 2004.
Cohen, Frank.

Chapter 10 : Five Situations Right for Outsourcing
 
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The Four Steps to the Epiphany: Successful Strategies for Products That Win. Foster City, CA: Cafepress.com, 2005.
Blank, Steven Gary

Embedded Systems Architecture: A Comprehensive Guide for Engineers and Programmers. Boston: Elsevier/Newnes, 2005.
Noergaard, Tammy.

Developing Products in Half the Time: New Rules, New Tools. 2nd ed. New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1997.
Smith, Preston G., and Donald G. Reinertsen.

Chapter 11 : The Future of Global Software development
 
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Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions. New York: Dover, 1992.
Abbott, Edwin A.

In Defense of Globalization: New York: Oxford University, 2004.
Bhagwati, Jagdish.

The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005.
Friedman, Thomas L.

The 86 Percent Solution: How to Succeed in the Biggest Market Opportunity of the Next 50 Years. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Wharton School, 2005.
Mahajan, Vijay, and Kamini Banga.
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