www.readwriteweb.com
OCTOBER 7, 2007
Our development was a particularly complicated build requiring 5 developers, a systems architect, an html coder, a SQL specialist, 4 testers, 2 designers, a graphic designer, a project manager and a security specialist. Should I offshore? Do you have any offshore development companies you can suggest? And for design companies ?
BeyondVC
JANUARY 6, 2004
Ephraim Shwartz of Infoworld has a great piece on offshoring and implications for IT shops in the US. While the number of coders may go down in an IT department, there will be ample opportunity for developers to move up the value chain into design, architecture, and product management.
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nikcub.appspot.com
MARCH 8, 2012
The sites to consider to find potential developers are: Elance - This is the original offshore/contract development site and has been around since the late 90s. Rent-a-coder and Guru - These sites, and the millions of others like them, are in a different category. Be wary of the generic response templates (ie.
murkygrey.com
OCTOBER 23, 2010
The big guys have been doing it for years and recently, smaller and smaller startups are incorporating offshore development into their plans. Here are some lethal mistakes to avoid: Downplaying the culture gap Communicating with your offshore developers may seem easy; in all likelihood they speak decent English. My advice: don’t!
blog.captainrecruiter.com
MARCH 8, 2012
Also hire offshore devs to assist you in building your product. Also witness the countless nights and weekend that FOSS people invest in their projects and in that environment coders tend to think other people will not commit. Reply Delete Anonymous Aug 15, 2010 05:24 PM I sorta agree. Not likely.
techcrunch.com
OCTOBER 23, 2010
Also, for the full time coder, you may violate your employee contract especially in the area of non-competes or just plain piss off your boss when he finds out how much time you have been putting into a side project when deadlines were looming. The above would make sense if one is unable to afford or obtain coders period.
sivers.org
JUNE 25, 2010
Maybe this is because I run offshore software development company and have seen a LOT of people coming asking for help after dealing with freelancers. At this stage, its perfectly fine, and actually preferable, to use a cheap coder to just get something out the door to test in the market. Very important!
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