Category Archives: offshore software development

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?

21 March 2012 Offshoring

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

17 January 2012 Cultural Differences

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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Nearshoring or offshoring: which works better? Nearshoring of offshoring: wat werkt beter?Nearshoring eller offshoring: vilket fungerar bäst?Nearshoring oder Offshoring: Welche Alternative ist die Bessere?

22 December 2011 Offshoring

A question that I often hear is whether offshoring is better than nearshoring or vice versa. First, let’s get straight on the difference. Nearshoring is when you move work to a country that is nearby your own country. Wikipedia speaks about a …

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