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Three Ideas to Consider When Implementing Agile with Distributed Development Teams

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

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 [...]

Establishing and Managing Risk factors in Offshore Software Development

posted by john in Open source, SLDC, United States on

Outsourcing software development is usually done with the intention of lowering the cost of a project. The decision to outsource is also taken to redirect and conserve the competent skills of a particular business, or to utilize the more efficient skills of the outsourced company, its technology, and its resources.
In outsourcing a software project, traditionally, [...]

Using Open Source in Offshore Software Development

posted by john in Open source, Outsource, Planning on

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 [...]

Offshore Software Development Dynamics

posted by john in Outsource on

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

posted by john in Outsource on

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 [...]

Daily Scrums in Offshore Software Development

posted by john in Agile Software Development, Distributed on

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Criticisms of Software Outsourcing

posted by john in Outsource on

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 [...]