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? …
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 …
When it comes to service or process outsourcing based on the requirements of your company, most expert business advisors would suggest that the best way of doing this is to set a bidding process for various BPO providers. Naturally, the …
The Dutch political party PvdA (Labor Party) will propose a bill to ban collective firing on the grounds of offshoring. The party declared so on its blog. I think that this way of thinking does not fit with our day and …
Thanks in part to several key mega-trends in business thinking over the last 30+ years, senior business and technology executives face a fairly generic list of tasks today. They are working to align information technology (IT) with business goals, turn …
I recently did a presentation on Talk About IT. One of the topics of my story was how mindset affects (working with) global teams. The highlights: 1. ‘I want to have people in my office’ This is a mindset that many …
By now, just about every Internet marketer knows they ‘should’ be using a virtual assistant to free up their time for more important matters like strategizing, organizing campaigns, arranging JVs, creating new promotions, fine-tuning offers, etc. But, still, many marketers …
Report: Talk About IT, November 15, 2011 Last Tuesday was the fifth time Talk About IT in Amsterdam. Talk About IT is a platform where interesting experienced speakers present their views about the latest topics in IT and where IT professionals come …
One would think the studies that demonstrate a strong correlation between good governance and the successful outcome of outsourcing engagements would be enough to convince everyone to pursue it, but that is not the case. Even the largest and most …
The past few years international outsourcing has come to play an increasingly large part within the IT industry. Mainly large companies like KPN and Sogeti regularly decide to relocate projects offshore, especially to India. For example, KPN announced two weeks …
Yesterday, I visited a seminar in Amsterdam about offshoring and afterwards had a long discussion with a project manager from Accenture. The main message of the day for me was that if you want to work with people on a …
An android based tablet computing device with 350 gm weight, 7” size touch screen, 800 x 480 pixel resolution, OS:Android 2.2, 256 RAM,2GB storage capacity, 366Mhz processor, 3 hour battery back-up, 2 USB ports, support Wi-Fi connectivity, supports more than …