Category Archives: offshore software development

How far can offshoring go? Hoe ver kan offshoring gaan?Hur långt kan offshoring gå?Wie weit kann Offshoring gehen?

The Hackett Group published an interesting research about the future of offshoring. They did the research among 4700 companies with $1 billion in turnover or more. The researchers predict that by 2016, 2.3 million jobs will have been moved offshore …

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Why choose an offshore colleague instead of a local employee?Waarom kiezen voor een offshore collega in plaats van een lokale werknemer?Varför ska man välja en offshore-kollega istället för att anställa lokalt?Warum ausländische Kollegen ortsansässigen Angestellten vorziehen?

When speaking to software companies in Europe, I often get to hear ‘we want to have people in our office’. This is something I fully understand. Having people in your own office makes it easier for organization than having people …

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Agile Outsourcing

14 February 2012 Offshoring

Many Agile organizations are considering outsourcing parts of the development work. But they want to keep their benefits from Agile, like quick delivery, customer involvement, and high quality. Outsourcing will create distance between the local organization and the development teams …

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Understanding the Advantages of OutsourcingDe Voordelen van Outsourcing BegrijpenAtt förstå fördelarna med outsourcingDas Verständnis über die Vorteile von Outsourcing

13 February 2012 Offshoring

To an ordinary person, outsourcing a business would seem like a waste of company resources and an additional complication for running a business. This makes sense because after all, why should a company send business abroad when it can be …

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What are the Americans doing that we Europeans are not doing?Wat doen de Amerikanen dat wij Europeanen niet doen?Vad gör amerikanerna som européerna inte gör?Was die Amerikaner den Europäern voraushaben

I frequently speak to people in India that run BPO or software firms and I am always astonished by the numbers. People tell me that they started their software company 5 years back and employ 2000 people today. In Management …

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