Category Archives: Custom Software Development

E-Commerce Outsourcing: BenefitsE-Commerce Outsourcing: VoordelenFördelar med outsourcing av e-handelE-Commerce-Outsourcing: Die Vorteile

21 September 2012 Outsourcing

Outsourcing is the process through which a company hires another company to provide labour or to play some function for them instead of using their own staff to carry out the function. Today, outsourcing is becoming the order of the …

Read More

What is the role of empathy in an offshoring context?Wat voor rol speelt empathie in een offshoring context?Vad spelar empati för roll i ett offshoringsammanhang?Was ist die Rolle von Empathie in einem Offshoring-Kontext?

Last week, I gave a presentation at the Technical University in Delft and one of my topics was ’empathy’. I always get some questioning faces when I present a slide with a definition of empathy on it. Normally, technologists get taught about …

Read More

Quality Software with Agile Teams

11 January 2012 Soft Skills

Agile teams have shown to be a great way to deliver high quality software products. The agile values favore quality, and there are several agile practices that are applied by agile teams to develop high quality software. What is Quality? …

Read More

Why would I develop my software the Agile way and where should I start?

During the Talk About IT event in Amsterdam on May 24th, Peter Hilton and Michael Franken shared their view on how to go about this way of managing teams and projects. Hugo Messer, organizer of Talk About IT, shortly got …

Read More

Advantages for programmers when involving in Software Community sites and Discussion forums

  What’s your opinion on encouraging programmers in a company to involve in Software Community sites  and Discussion forums? (a) Good for knowledge sharing and self improvement OR (b) Waste of time and that leads to less productivity I believe …

Read More