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23 November 2011 Outsourcing

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Global Software Development: Fixed price or not? Global Software Ontwikkeling: Vaste prijs of niet?Global mjukvaruutveckling: Fastpris eller inte?Globale Softwareentwicklung: Festpreis: Ja oder nein?

23 November 2011 Outsourcing

Internet and software projects are often executed on a fixed price & fixed date contract. The customer outsourcing the project feels ‘protected’ against delays and misunderstandings in delivery. But are you as a customer really protected or does it make …

6 governance habits to create success in global staffing

13 September 2011 Offshoring

The traditional outsourcing model uses a fixed price or SLA as a basis to manage the relationship between the people onshore and offshore. The agreement is based on result. In global staffing, the agreement is based on effort and availability. …

The how, why and what of offshoringDe hoe, waarom en wat van offshoringHur, varför och vad man offshorarWie, Warum und WaDas s des Offshorings

24 August 2011 Bridge news

Last week, I was featured in a Dutch radio show on BNR about offshore outsourcing. The topic was ‘does offshoring create cost advantages?’, ‘how is the quality of offshore work?’ and ‘the do’s and don’t of offshore outsourcing’. The experts in the …

How to make an offshore programmer wildly motivated?Hoe maakt u een offhore programmeur enthousiast en gemotiveerd?Hur man gör en offshore-programmerare galet motiverad?Wie Sie einen Offshore Programmierer wirklich motivieren können!

12 August 2011 Offshoring

A few weeks ago, I wrote an article about oral versus written communication in offshoring. One of my clients pointed me to another interesting question: how to make an offshore programmer enthusiastic about your project, how to motivate him and get …

The future of offshoring: global staffingDe toekomst van offshoring: global staffingFramtidens offshoring: global staffingDie Zukunft des Offshorings: Global Staffing

The past years, offshoring and nearshoring have become widespread among Western companies. Driven by the lack of skilled (IT) people in Western Europe, the high wages for IT people and the greying population, this industry is predicted to grow substantially …

How to successfully achieve Speed and Agility with Outsourcing?Hoe verzeker je snelheid en behendigheid bij outsourcing?Hur man uppnår ett snabbt och smidigt arbetssätt med outsourcing? Wie erreicht man erfolgreich Schnelligkeit und Beweglichkeit mit Outsourcing?

Have you ever tried to move a car or some other heavy object from a dead standstill?  It’s much harder to steer a car that’s barely moving than one that is already moving at a good rate of speed.  Likewise, it’s hard …

The India Way

In June of 2009 I published an article called ‘The Toyota Way in ICT?’. In last June’s Computable I read an article called ‘Indians defeat veterans in outsourcing’. In this article it is said that Dutch customers are happy with …

5 steps to make outsourcing successful5 stappen om outsoucing succesvol te maken5 steg för att göra outsourcing mer framgångsrikt5 Schritte, um Outsourcing erfolgreich zu machen

I recently heard a great presentation of Amanda Crouch, partner at Global Business Partnership Alliance .She identified 7 steps that lead to real collaboration in an outsourcing relationship. An interesting statistic that underscores the importance of ‘relationships’: 70% of performance/delivery problems have …

Offshoring: a new industrial revolution?Offshoring: een nieuwe industriële revolutie?Offshoring: en ny industriell revolution?Offshoring: eine neue industrielle Revolution?

If we look back at the current era in about 15-20 years, will we be talking about a revolution when we talk about offshoring? Could offshoring become so ingrained in the way we do business, that it truly changes the …

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 …