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9 Tips about Outsourcing Your Software Testing
Vigilant Technologies specializes in quality assurance testing, automation testing, regression testing, performance testing, and production monitoring. This article provides nine tips for going the outsourcing route with your software testing work.
Agile Outsourcing: 10 Tips for Successfully Outsourcing Software Development
This article shares 10 factors or tips that can ensure the success of your outsourced software development. Some of these factors are related to agile methodologies and some are not.
Agile Outsourcing: End User Metrics in Software Development
What happens when users are dissatisfied with the results of outsourcing efforts? They implement shadow efforts to recreate the functionality they need out of the outsourced software development projects. This article elaborates upon the different criteria that can be applied in designing meaningful user satisfaction surveys.
Agile Outsourcing: How Agile Methodologies Help Software Development Outsourcing
Agile methodologies such as agile software development and continuous process improvement may be the answers to long-term success, both for buyers and providers of outsourced software development services. Here are some reasons why.
Agile Outsourcing: Metrics for Outsourced Software Development
Defining a proper set of metrics is often a good place to start to make your outsourced software development succeed.
Agile Outsourcing: Requirements Gathering and Agile Methodologies
The author touches on some of the aspects and characteristics of requirements gathering that make it difficult. He also outlines some of the ways in which agile programming methodologies address these problems upfront, so that costly mistakes can be avoided.
Agile Outsourcing: Software Design and Agile Methodologies
In this month's article, columnist Nari Kannan explores some of the typical problems and observations about software design that happens in real-life and how agile methodologies address them very effectively.
Agile Outsourcing: Testing and Quality Assurance
This article explores how agile methodologies offer the smoothest way to ensure this balance between testing and quality assurance. The author explores typical problems that arise in testing and QA and explains how agile methodologies address them.
Agile Outsourcing: The Power of Contextual Enquiry
Contextual enquiry is when software developers spend time observing the end users at work. What a golden opportunity for both BPO and software development service providers and clients to gain more from their outsourcing efforts! This article explains how.
Augmentum Gets Real about Outsourcing to China
Augmentum, one of the new breed of US-China software development companies focused on outsourcing, has a goal -- a big goal -- for its first decade of business: to grow to 40,000 people and have revenue of a billion dollars a year.
Crawl, Walk, Run Strategy Leads to Success in Offshore Outsourcing
To be successful in offshore outsourcing, you should plan to build your internal capabilities step by step. This article shares a framework strategy called Crawl, Walk, Run and shows it in action with a composite case study.
Digite Processes Software Development
A breed of tool has emerged that provides visibility into your IT investments at the same time it tracks project progress and helps you manage your resources (human and otherwise). Digite Enterprise excels in the category of software development process management.
Functional Outsourcing
The story of how one software services company adds new functionality to its offerings by tapping third-party expertise.
How a Start-Up Software Company Outsourced Testing
If you finally have a reference customer willing to try out the new offering, you don’t want to give software that’s not really ready to use. This article profiles how a software company outsourced its testing and QA to accelerate product development.
How To Hire Best-of-Breed Programmers for Your Project
TopCoder Software literally calls on the services of thousands of programmers all around the world for its development work -- and only the best results end up getting used in the code for their projects. Here's how they do it.
How To Outsource Product Management to Customers
This software and solutions company has figured out a way to outsource much of its product management chores to its own customers - and have them pay to create the features that are most important to them.
How to Outsource: Four Simple Steps to Success
This 11-page whitepaper focuses on application development and maintenance. Among the topics: evaluating worthy applications for outsourcing, doing a cultural alignment between client and service provider, ensuring a smooth transition, and measuring success and ROI.
I Was a Newbie to Project Outsourcing
The author, a young entrepreneur, had an idea for a new company. But the only way he could make it real -- and keep to his own vision -- was by outsourcing its creation. This article details his journey in project outsourcing -- and the lessons he learned.
Imported Java: Patni Delivers
A fascinating rundown on one magazine’s experiment with offshore software development. You’ll also get links to the initial RFI, the follow-ups from the vendor, the functional spec, as well as the application that was developed as a result of this $38,000 project. If you’re wondering what offshoring looks like from the inside, here’s the blow-by-blow.
Is your Application Portfolio Ready for Outsourcing?
Here's an "assessment-based approach" to quantifying outsourcing readiness and developing a phased approach to offshoring.
IT Outsourcing Destination: Russia
A current overview of the Russian IT outsourcing industry.
Offshore sourcing: Undertaking internal due diligence
In this Webinar former MetaGroup VP Dean Davison focuses on portfolio assessment in developing an offshore initiative.
Offshoring to India: A Case Study about Ketera Technologies
The author shares the details that enabled his company -- Ketera Technologies -- to succeed with its offshoring efforts. The article includes a downloadable spreadsheet matrix for city selection.
Offshoring to India: A Case Study about Ketera Technologies
The author shares the details that enabled his company -- Ketera Technologies -- to succeed with its offshoring efforts. The article includes a downloadable spreadsheet matrix for city selection.
Offshoring to India: A Case Study about Ketera Technologies
The author shares the details that enabled his company -- Ketera Technologies -- to succeed with its offshoring efforts. The article includes a downloadable spreadsheet matrix for city selection.
Offshoring to India: A Case Study about Ketera Technologies
The author shares the details that enabled his company -- Ketera Technologies -- to succeed with its offshoring efforts. The article includes a downloadable spreadsheet matrix for city selection.
Offshoring to India: A Case Study about Ketera Technologies
The author shares the details that enabled his company -- Ketera Technologies -- to succeed with its offshoring efforts. The article includes a downloadable spreadsheet matrix for city selection.
One Programmer’s Encounter with Outsourcing
Josh Evitt has seen up close what the offshoring experience is like as a developer put in the position of working with an Indian team. In this article he shares impressions of the challenges his company faced in offhshoring its development work.
Optimizing Application Management Outsourcing
This eight-page whitepaper from service provider Syntel, which offers offshore development services, provides seven best practices worth following in application management.
Our Company’s Story in Outsourcing
This remarkable story recounts the saga of a small software firm in California opening an India division. Author Kristen Kuhns, Executive VP of TierSolution, shares positive and negative experiences. For example, do you know just how much you’re going to have to pay for those software licenses in India or how long it’ll take you to acquire furniture for your new India offices? Read it and weep.
Phased Rollout Strategies in Legacy Reengineering
A common use of service providers is to support legacy applications. This 32-page whitepaper provides a detailed explanation about how to perform a methodical, process-driven transition from legacy to new application. The case study aspects focus on an insurance company system, but the step-by-step explanations apply to the move away from any type of mission-critical application that has seen better days.
Product Development Outsourcing Helps This Company Stay Competitive
How does a 100-percent, self-funded, interactive educational software company stay afloat and compete with much larger organizations to deploy electronic media and online educational solutions? The answer is through outsourcing. This case study shares how Xplana Learning creates new solutions.
Product Development Outsourcing Helps This Company Stay Competitive
How does a 100-percent, self-funded, interactive educational software company stay afloat and compete with much larger organizations to deploy electronic media and online educational solutions? The answer is through outsourcing. This case study shares how Xplana Learning creates new solutions.
Quantifying an Application's Feasibility for Outsourcing
This brief whitepaper outlines a method and criteria for quantifying outsourcing readiness.
Software Agreement Guidelines
Guidelines for setting out the agreement to have a service provider develop software for you.
Software Compliance Issues in Outsourcing Code Development
When you're outsourcing software development, you can't assume that all the code provided by the service provider is original. An expert on intellectual property protection shares advice.
Software without Borders: Out-tasking vs. Outsourcing
Are you frustrated by a lack of progress when using a handful of offshore programmers to work on your software? Maybe you are really out-tasking when you should be outsourcing.
The Developer-to-Developer Model in Software Offshore Outsourcing
Often, companies bring 25% to 30% of the service provider's team onsite. But this does little to promote team-building and bonding across shores -- critical aspects of offshore outsourcing. This article shares two valuable lessons the authors have learned in working together as a client and offshore service provider.
True-Life Tales: Outsourcing Problems
In this "True Life Tale," our anonymous hero only notices the outsourcing problems after it's too late to cancel the project. Saving money isn't always an easy matter.
Using DFSS To Improve Offshore Outsourcing Efficiency
Offshoring of software development work has been subject to wild variations in success and efficiency. A Design for Six Sigma approach is one way your software organization can make better decisions about how, when and how much to deploy offshore.
Volere Requirements Specification Template
A requirements specification template for software projects.
What one outsourcing customer discovered while shopping for providers.
How one VP of development for a software company researched location options for offshoring development.
When Agile Development Methods May Not Work Well
There have been a multitude of articles on how and why agile programming methods can accelerate software development, and lead to better quality applications or products. This article is really about some of the scenarios where agile methods are likely to not be well suited.
When Small Companies Offshore (with non-disclosure form)
IndogenFX, a tiny software consulting firm whose main focus is developing projects involving applications with business rule processes, has parceled programming work to India, Israel and is now talking to companies in Ukraine. Includes eight lessons.
Why DBAs Should Push to Outsource the Database Infrastructure
Outsourcing the management of the data infrastructure allows DBAs to spend less time tackling tactical or maintenance-level data management tasks and more time determining how to use the actual data contained within the information stores for the strategic benefit of the organization.
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