
Information Technology Project Management
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Chapter 12, Problem 1DQ
List five reasons why organizations outsource. When should an organization choose not to outsource? Why are some organizations moving their software development work back in-house? Why are some organizations beginning to use onshoring?
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Reasons to outsource:
- To reduce fixed costs and capital investment as approaching other companies to do work helps in reducing initial inflow requirement to the project.
- Improve accountability as a good contract helps reduce the risk of the company but reduce the daily requirements of supervision.
- Focussing on core competency of the business. It might not be the more added value of the company. For example, a company can outsource manufacturing process while focussing on the design part.
- Ensuring flexibility of operations to vary staff, production requirement easily as per demand.
- Accessing expertise in skill and technology. Approaching expert professionals and organizations will only help to improve efficiency and results.
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Reasons for not to outsource:
- Companies might need more control over a project, this monitoring might not be applicable in outsourcing.
- Dependency over an external company can affect their performance. So, companies might avoid that.
- The information might be of strategic importance and provide a competitive advantage. This cannot be shared with other companies in the market.
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Reasons for organizations to move back IT projects in-house:
- IT projects can be seen as services that be placed along with core activities.
- If the organization is ahead of competitors in the market, software development can be moved in-house.
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Reasons to use on-shoring:
- It contributes to the development of economy and ensuring improvement in investments and job opportunities in the local level.
- It provides opportunity for better collaboration.
- Also reduces the cost of operation and ensure low-cost of resources.
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7. See the code below and solve the following.
public class Test {
public static void main(String[] args) {
int result = 0;
}
result = fn(2,3);
System.out.println("The result is:
+ result);
// fn(x, 1) = x
// fn(x, y)
=
fn(x, y-1) + 2, when y>1
public static int fn(int x, int y) {
if (x <= 1)
return x;
else
return fn(x, y-1) + 2;
}
}
7-1. This program has a bug that leads to infinite recursion. Modify fn(int x, int y) method to fix
the problem. (2 point)
7-2. Manually trace the recursive call, fn(2,3) and show the output (step by step). (2 point)
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