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A reminder that the next three sessions allocate time to a narrow selection of papers from the reading list and to three cases (one each week) to be read in advance, work on and discuss in class. If time allows we will also work on the term paper. Tuesday 27th March as follows: Session 8 Case: Core Banking https://managingglobalsourcing.blogspot.ie/2011/01/core-banking-source.html Knowledge gaps? Personal knowledge gaps - leading to new knowledge (self-learning) "Things I know" - representations, framing, devices and theories? Country attractiveness Sourcing models Decision models Supplier perspective Capabilities and strategies The client perspective Knowledge management Outsourcing lifecycle Global, distributed, teams: strategies, techniques, tools, attitude, beliefs Issues on the horizon Power, ethics Activities, practices, processes, structures Actors, relationships, network Communication, coordination, collaboration Subject, object(ive) or outcome, division of labour, co...

10am Tuesday 10th April N203, at the UCD Smurfit Graduate School of Business Kierán Cox from the NSAI (National Standards Authority Ireland) will deliver a seminar on standards and their role in product design and market making. Introducing both ISO9001 and the application of standards approaches in the technology sector generally (hardware and software combinations). Standards has an impact on the outsourcing perspective too with an impact on supplier management, addressing supply chain risk/benefits, corporate social responsibility etc. For example, the development of charge stations for electric vehicles is a growing sector with deep dependencies on ISO standards for technology/device/software interoperability and quality.

Our next speakers are Mike Elkin and Richard Sheehan. Mike and Richard are production and site reliability experts at Facebook. Their talk will revolve around the question of "how we fail – all the time, and how we approach that in our development process". Expect insights and war stories and how Facebook deal with these challenges through process engineering and their approaches to managing the progressive enhancement of software. This topic should be of interest to anyone who wants to find out more about current software development practices. Space is limited. please contact Mel Ó Cinnéide if you’re planning to attend. Speaker: Mike Elkin and Richard Sheehan Role: Production and site reliability Company: Facebook Venue: Room B0.02, Computer Science Building, UCD Date & Time: Tuesday, March 6, 15.00-15.50, 2018 The 'How we build software’ seminar series brings speakers from a variety of Irish-based software companies to speak abou...