A Must-have Bible for Anyone Practicing SW Outsourcing

Typically I seldom buy a SW Eng. book, since it's a Have-Your-Habds-Dirty engineering, there is not much formulars, recipes and tricks for you to learn.

We started our SW outsourcing last year with an office set up
in China. Though we gained lots of experiences through painful
trial process, I think we would have saved much more time and
energy on both business and technical sides in dealing with our clients, should we owned the book earlier (we did not buy that from Amazon unfortunately)

Since the author was a one time insider of the well known, NASDAQ listed Indian SW outsourcing company, along with his rich academia experience, the book is full of a ciombnination of engineering praticalness and acdemia sophiscation, and is well orgnized and well written. It touches not only the state-of-the-art, like tracability, impact analysis, risk management, SW metrics and effort estimation, but also addreess pratical issues like contract/agrement drafting and negotiiation, which we found is very useful.

One thing confuses me is that asides from most of start-of-the art techniques adopted by InfoSys, why they use a revised Waterfall process model instead of popular evolutionary process.
Is that because they are in the SW outsoucing busienss?

Another suggestion is that, the book may looks like better
if it can adopt a evolutionay/iterative/incremental way on
telling people the story and the theory/practice behind them.
Some popular books on UML are using this Unfidied Process
way, evn on writing books. Is that interesting?

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