Category Archives: Offshoring

How big are attrition rates in offshore or nearshore teams?Hoe is het personeelsverloop in offshore en nearshore teams?Hur stor är personalomsättningen i offshore- och nearshore-team?Wie hoch sind die Ausfallraten bei offshore oder nearshore Teams?

  I frequently hear from people that an aspect which affects the effectiveness of their offshore team is high attrition. It is commonly understood that attrition rates in India are in the range of 20-40% per year which means that …

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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

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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Quality Software with Agile Teams

11 January 2012 Soft Skills

Agile teams have shown to be a great way to deliver high quality software products. The agile values favore quality, and there are several agile practices that are applied by agile teams to develop high quality software. What is Quality? …

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