Outsource Bulgaria

Thomas Friedman travels to India to see in person how outsourcing in India works.

It’s a 45-minute video so take your time!

In areas of China and the Asia Pacific, most of software outsourcing projects are accounted at a fixed rate, and this contract mode brings a mistaken concept to firms that it will cause inconvenience but have no effect on project investment because of this project delay. Continue reading ‘Software Outsourcing Project on Schedule’

It was only a matter of time before Outsourcing 2.0 was coined (even Hollywood has adopted the version numbers with the latest installment of Die Hard being Die Hard 4.0).

Frank J. Casale, Founder & CEO of The Outsourcing Institute, has published a white paper defining what he believes are the drivers behind Outsourcing 2.0. To quote directly:

There are three centrifugal forces driving outsourcing today: universal pain in all dimensions of  outsourcing; changes in who is outsourcing and how it is done; and, the corresponding Web 2.0 movement that is created a strong tail wind that’s helping to propel outsourcing into its next iteration.

I specifically like two points that Frank is making:

1. The rise of do-it-yourself companies who go after outsourcing bypassing middlemen and focusing on a very specific activity that could be done BETTER, not necessarily cheaper.
2. Web 2.0 and its influence on software development: agile development, user input, etc.