Category Archives: Offshoring

Building a dedicated team: what can it bring to me?Een toegewijd team creëren: wat levert mij dat op?Building a dedicated team: what can it bring to me?Building a dedicated team: what can it bring to me?

27 September 2010 Offshoring

There are many reasons why companies from Europe or the United States outsource work to India or Eastern Europe. The most frequently heard driver for offshoring are obviously ‘costs’. In this post, I want to describe a case of one …

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Why life cycle demands professional programmers instead of students

Anyone attempting to setup a startup will be confronted with the problem of gathering sufficient capital to turn an idea into a sellable product. Once investors enter the startup they will demand a considerable chunk of the business in order …

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We have a process, don’t we? We hebben een proces, toch?We have a process, don’t we? We have a process, don’t we?

22 September 2010 Offshoring

In the past years, I have been learning the hard way how important processes are as a basis for a company to grow. As an entrepreneur or manager, you set out to establish something, to work towards that point on …

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The Swedish IT marketDe Zweedse IT marktThe Swedish IT marketThe Swedish IT market

16 September 2010 Offshoring

I have visited Stockholm this week to visit a few of our Swedish customers and to speak to some prospective customers. My general conclusion is that offshoring is even more important for the future of the Swedish IT industry than …

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Offshore project management: how to manage your projectsOffshore project management: hoe uw projecten te managenOffshore project management: how to manage your projectsOffshore project management: how to manage your projects

3 September 2010 Offshoring

For years I have been trying to find the crucial aspects in offshore project management. Both in managing our own projects (during the period we also did fixed price projects for our customers) and in observing how our customers are …

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