A Multicriteria Approach to Support Task Allocation in Projects of Distributed Software Development

Table 5

Strategy for application of the approach.

Stages	Activities	Strategy
(1) Context Characterisation	(1.1) Definition of tasks types	Performed once for all participating companies. The data will be shared between companies.
	(1.2) Identification of influencing factors
	(1.3) Criteria and groups definition
	(1.4) Characterisation of influencing factors
(2) Ranking of the influencing factors	(2.1) Classification of influencing factors into preference groups
	(2.2) Rank ordering of influencing factors
(3) Ranking of the executing units	(3.1) Definition and characterisation of offices	Individual per company.
	(3.2) Classification of offices into preference groups
	(3.3) Rank ordering of offices