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MaPIT research project arranges a public seminar on future trends of global software development projects. The seminar will be held on November 26th 2008 at Dipoli Congress Centre, Espoo.

In this seminar, we look further both in terms of time window and also the development of global software development. By focusing on the collaboration and innovativeness within and between the teams, we seek to find ways how to build real partnership between the parties in global software development, and how to foster innovativeness and sustainable benefits from the global collaboration. The seminar presentations focus both on strategic and operational level of managing, improving andimplementing practices for collaboration and innovativeness in software projects.

The seminar is targeted for people responsible for their it-projects, managers, HR people and directors - who want to make best out of their respective positions and teams. The seminar presentations focus both on strategic and operational level of managing, improving and implementing practices for collaboration and innovativeness in software projects.

MaPIT features a Guest Lecture at Science Thursday, Thu 27.11.2008 at 10-12am in TKK Computer Science building, Lecture hall T2, about software industries in China and India.

The last decade has witnessed the emergence of China and India as the two most significant economies in the global competitive landscape. The prominence of China and India is due not only to rapidly growing local markets but also a phenomenally increasing concentration of economic and innovative activities that is taking place in these two countries.

Particularly in the context of the global software industry India has acquired the repute of a leading "software nation", whereas China is fast gaining ground and emerging as a serious player. Interestingly, however, the evolution and growth trajectory of the Chinese software industry differs considerably from that of the Indian software industry. For practitioners involved in international business and R&D, international project management, global software business, or distributed software development, as well as students and academics from these fields, the lecture provides a cutting-edge analysis of the conditions for global collaboration with China and India.

The lecture is free of charge. Welcome!

More information about the lecture can be found here.

More information about the position is available, please see the announcement (in Finnish).