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Inside perspective: Hello world…

17 February 2010 Bridge news

My name is Ksenia Shepelevich and I would like to introduce myself and tell you about my collaboration with the Dutch company Techno Design IP in the capacity of designer. I am from Chisinau City, the capital of a small country …

Do we need a new terminology in offshore outsourcing?

15 February 2010 Offshoring

The past years I have been thinking regularly about the terminology in the offshoring world. The market has come up with a huge list of terms like:  –          Offshoring –          Offshore outsourcing –          Nearshoring –          Nearshore outsourcing –          Captive center …

The New Way of Working

12 February 2010 Outsourcing

In a professional environment the expression “The New Way of Working” (TNW) appears everywhere and very frequently nowadays. Many already heard about it, some didn’t. Many organizations want to introduce it, others don’t. TNW can offer a lot of advantages …

Digging and digging into Drupal open source cms

26 January 2010 Soft Skills

There is a really ‘open’ revolution going on. Not only in software business, there are many other products and projects based on ‘open source’ collaboration. Some say it’s the next logical step in evolution of mankind. We (Lucius Websystems) are …

Social Media in 2010

2009 has been quite the eventful year: There were plane crashes in Holland and on the Hudson River, Michal Jackson died, everybody was freaked out by Swine Flu, Lance Armstrong returned to the Tour de France, there was a climate …

7 fat years: where will we get our IT people?

14 January 2010 Offshoring

A new research from Forrester says that a new cycle of ‘7 fat years’ starts in 2010. (http://www.forrester.com/ER/Press/Release/0,1769,1317,00.html) Some details from the research: After a dismal performance in 2009, the technology sector will see a recovery in 2010 as businesses and …

Inside perspective: My Experience with Epicerie des allergique

Epicerie des allergique is an online store built on the ecommerce open source package, Magento. With this project, I got a nice exposure to Magento ecommerce, where I had to dig in, to make some modules and to create an …

The rising popularity of outsourcing in Germany

6 January 2010 Outsourcing

kamagra without a prescription In 2006 the phantom of the financial crisis appeared for the first time on the surface, when some bad speculations on the US real estate market emerged. In 2007 the first banks announced losses and depreciations …

A short tale about Moldova & Bridge

16 December 2009 Bridge news

At the beginning of this article I would like to introduce a small country Moldova, located in Eastern Europe between Ukraine and Romania. From 1940-1991 – Moldova was a part of exUSSR. In 1970 – Moldova has received significant allocation from …

The True Definition of Success for Software Projects

The Challenge in Defining True Success Let’s examine the question of the classic definition of on time, on budget, of high quality, with the expected features as a traditional measure of success. Is it possible for a project to meet …

Advanced Planning with Open Source

Most of you will know renowed Open Source applications, like Joomla and WordPress for Content Management. Some applications however, are less familiar, but nothing less useful or powerful. As consultant specialized in planning and forecasting, I use a lot of …

REMEMBER REMEMBER……

11 December 2009 Bridge news

Remember when mobile phones were introduced?? This goes as far back as 1973 (yes really! that long ago!). Remember people saying: “That’s not for me” and “That will never catch on”?? Remember when the fist PC was introduced? This was …