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Read moreThree Ideas to Consider When Implementing Agile with Distributed Development Teams
The framework of software engineering has been redefined by introduction of Agile software development concepts. Agile has prompted greater improvement in the life-cycle of a software project. When implementing Agile with an offshore or distributed development teams, there are opportunities to address three aspects of the project. We will cover these three [...]
Read moreUsing Open Source in Offshore Software Development
The term open source software, OSS in short, may not be known to everyone. In your IT career, you must have heard of the Linux operating system. This is the operating system that has made a huge impact in the data center. Though LINUX has made its name as OSS, there are several others [...]
Read moreOffshore Software Development Dynamics
Imagine the following article is software code. Sure, it’s English and it somewhat comprehensible, but it’s going to take an investment to make it informative, clear and useful.
This is a continuing post on the series of outsourcing article writing. Outsource Article Content Part I, Outsource Article Content Part II. There are many [...]
Challenges in Offshore Software Development
In this day and age, with globalization setting in, organizations are constantly looking for benefits derived from outsourcing software development to other countries. There is skilled software teams distributed all over the world, which are increasingly being made available to organizations as partner companies, collaborating on offshore software development projects.
Organizations have been distributing their work [...]
Example of Outsourcing Article Writing for Your Website
Have you tried outsourcing article writing for your website? Below is one example of what you might expect to receive. The subject is “Human Resource Outsourcing in India” and it is written by a person from the Philippines.
For the record, this example is not intended to highlight efficiencies and/or deficiencies in outsourced article [...]
More Reasons than Cost When Outsourcing Software Development
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 [...]
Read moreInteresting Stats on Distributed Software Development
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 [...]
Criticisms of Software Outsourcing
Outsourcing, especially combined with offshoring, has come under strong public criticism with the idea it damages the local labor market. In outsourcing, one company transfers the delivery of certain services to the other, which in effect harms the local job market, and individuals. It is a concern outsourcing has harmful effect on the current job [...]
Read moreOffshore Software Development Debate
Tremendous interest has been generated amongst organizations with the initiatives in outsourcing software development to offshore centers, such as, India, China, and Russia. It has brought in large controversies across the IT world. The business philosophy of outsourcing of jobs and its core competencies have brought in interest, and heated disagreements as well at all [...]
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