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Daily Scrums in Offshore Software Development

posted by john in Agile Software Development, Distributed on November 11, 2009

Want to learn about Daily Scrums with distributed development teams? Frankly, you will be better off contacting supergloo rather than reading this article. Here is another example of article outsourcing.
It is part II in examples of original article outsourcing:
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Daily scrums in offshore software development
The concept of Agile software development has given another dimension [...]

More Reasons than Cost When Outsourcing Software Development

posted by john in Distributed, Industry, Outsource on

Fresh off the post yesterday on oDesk outsource statistics here is another interesting article on not realizing the true potential of outsourcing:

‘The true potential of outsourcing is not being achieved and we are still seeing a focus on a narrow remit of labour arbitrage and cost reduction. Overall our survey shows that the emphasis [...]

Interesting Stats on Distributed Software Development

posted by john in Distributed, Outsource on

You might find the latest offering from oDesk interesting. oDesk is calling it oConomy. It attempts to pull together some statistics on service providers, development rates and purchasing trends.
In particular, I found the top countries breakout particularly interesting. Recently, I discovered my company has developers on 6 continents.
What do you think of oDesk [...]