Abstract
Many years have passed since Japanese companies started development of the software using China and an Indian software manufacturer. Its purposes are both the reduction of the development cost and the utilization of excellently talented persons. However, all projects were not always of success because of the difference of languages, culture, corporate climate and the business environment. Rather, we have lots of issues that should be improved for the success of offshore software development projects. In such situation, it is paid attention that the attempts to the success in the projects using modeling technology in offshore software development in order to improve the communication between outsourcer and contractor. We made "UML application guideline for offshore development" from the viewpoint of "how we should use modeling technology" for offshore software development. I'm going to explain about the contents of this guideline, and I hope that it is helpful for the success of as many as offshore projects.
