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Using Open Source in Offshore Software Development

posted by john in Open source, Outsource, Planning on November 11, 2009

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 [...]

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Example of Outsourcing Article Writing for Your Website

posted by john in India, Outsource, Planning on

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 [...]

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Tools to Help Manage Offshore Software Development

posted by john in Implementation, Industry, Planning on

In any software project, the software development labor component represents only 30% to 50% of the total cost. As for the total cost, it is taken away by project management, analysis and design, testing, and ancillary activities, such as, management and environment preparation. This is why the cost savings on offshore projects are not more [...]

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How to Recruit an Offshore Dedicated Team of Web Developers

posted by john in Planning on

How to Recruit an Offshore Dedicated Team of Web Developers
There’s no doubt that an offshore team of developers can be as invaluable to your company as your best in-house employee. If you’re meticulous about your candidate screening process for in-house staff you should be even more meticulous when it comes to offshore staff. Why?- because [...]

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Know the Importance of Processes While Outsourcing Your Projects

posted by john in Planning, SEI CMM on

If you are one of the offshore customers who want to outsource their application development and software projects to the outsourcing destinations, then you must be concerned about the processes involved in application development and maintenance. And if you are not, then you need to know the importance of processes that play a key role [...]

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Offshore Software Outsourcing and reasons why offshore deals shatter

posted by john in Industry, Planning on

by Jason Himes
In the domain of Offshore Software Outsourcing the offshoring business is reaching the sky from day to day. Increasingly more IT companies opt for Offshore Outsourcing to satisfy their business needs. This trend also adds to the facts that many of the Offshore Software Outsourcing deals will fail due to improper planning and [...]

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How to Successfully Evaluate Software Development Proposals

posted by john in Industry, Planning on

The first impression says a lot about a firm, especially about software development companies in a time like this when thousands of offshore firms fiercely compete against each other, and where professionalism has become a trade off for low prices.When you first contact a prospective software development provider, ask yourself how they present themselves; how [...]

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Web design by Offshore Outsourcing

posted by john in Planning on

The fastest, cheapest and best way to complete the chip design or Web Design by Offshore Outsourcing else, a complex web of providers, both domestic and offshore vendors will be happy to help. With the process of Software or IT Outsourcing, one is entering into a close partnership that will needed ongoing interaction, supervision and [...]

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Are Programmers Really Engineers?

posted by john in Agile Software Development, Industry, Planning on

“Software Engineering” – Whatever That Means
If a programmer hands you her business card, it probably won’t list her title as “Programmer;” It is more likely to read “Software Engineer.” This raises the interesting question: does a programmer’s daily job rise to the level of an engineering discipline? I think it would be more accurate to [...]

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Choosing an Outsourcer

posted by john in Industry, Planning on

It is difficult to choose an offshore outsource provider because it’s hard to tell the difference between good and bad computer security. By the same token, it’s hard to tell the difference between good and bad medical care. Because most of us aren’t health care experts, we can sometimes be led astray by bad doctors [...]

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