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Inger Boivie, Carl aborg, Jenny person, Mats lofberg, 2003, Interacting with computers, why usability gets lost or usability in in-house software development, vol 15, no 3, pp 623-639

This chapter describes the initial transition from analysis to design and presents 3 ways to accomplish the design for the new system: custom, packaged, and outsourced alternatives. During the design phase, the project team needs to consider above 3 ways be acquisition strategies. For each of the acquisition strategies discussed its strengths and weaknesses. It is important to consider such issues as the uniqueness of business need for system, the amount of in-house experience that is available to build the system, and the importance of the project skills to the company.

Kam Fai Dick Tam, Ching Yuen Chan, 2008, In-House development of lowcost automatic IC workcell for BGA solder ball attachment, , vol.28, No.3, pp.255-261.

This chapter provided a detailed overview of systems design for a project. It examines systems design from the perspectives of both in-house development or “build” projects and software procurement or “buy” projects. Furthermore, it provided some examples to help us understand in-house development. For the in-house development projects, the systems design involves developing technical design specifications that will guide the construction and implemwntation of the new system.

Arnold B. Maltz ,Bernard J. La Londe, 1992, International Journal of logistics management, Some Propositions About Outsourcing The Logistics Function, vol 3, No 1, pp 1-11

This study focuses on analyzing the outsourcers. It comes from a discussion about continuing love affair between corporate America and the outsourcing companies that run their business-technology systems. This article describes the understanding of outsourcing in detail. It provided a lot of evidences to analysis outsourcings. These can help understand the relationship between outsourcing and in-house.