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Paul Herdsman Of NICE Global: The Benefits Of Utilizing Nearshore Outsourcing For Your Business

YoungUpstarts

While traditional offshoring to Asia or Eastern Europe has always been lauded for its cheap labor, for companies that practice agile, or require better collaboration, communication, and a higher level of engagement, the advantages of nearshore software development are clear. What is the difference between offshoring and nearshoring?

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Social, Agile, and Transformation: Strategic Agile Thinking: Balancing Value, Innovation and Research

ctotodevelopers.blogspot.com

Social, Agile, and Transformation. I cover several topics including agile software development, software startups, web 2.0, Strategic Agile Thinking: Balancing Value, Innovation and Research. 2) The agile "happy place". Agile teams sprint when value is known, implementation is low risk. and business transformation.

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20 Entrepreneurs Share Their Takeaways from 2020

Hearpreneur

A few years ago outsourcing resources offshore was all the rage. As a result the transition to remote was relatively painless but this meant managing every employee as if they are offshore. However we are finding that offshore resources are keen to work within your time zones even if it is for just meetings. 8-Stay agile.

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Affordable and Efficient App Development

The Startup Magazine

But the availability of outsourcing, offshoring, and outstaffing has pulled many away from the use of local developers. When you outsource your IT projects or hire an offshore development team, it comes with many benefits. Some businesses utilize in-house development teams or local professionals. Services are also much more affordable.

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Lessons Learned: Customer Development Engineering

Startup Lessons Learned

In addition to presenting the IMVU case, we tried for the first time to do an overview of a software engineering methodology that integrates practices from agile software development with Steves method of Customer Development. There were a lot of questions about outsourcing/offshoring and startups. Talk about waste.

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How Today’s Startups Can Adapt to a Globally Distributed Model

ReadWriteStart

What’s more, outsourcing projects and ongoing operations to offshore teams on a contract basis is a more flexible model that’s easy to scale. Support agile working practices. The fast-paced business world favors small, nimble teams that support agile decision-making.

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Can A Startup Do Offshore Development? Part 3

prosperati.com

Prosperati HOME BLOG ABOUT CONTACT Blog Can A Startup Do Offshore Development? Part 3 Posted 02.02.2010 in Blog A few months ago I wrote up my thoughts on offshore development within a technology startup context. I wrote about how you need to have an alignment of interest and trust in order for your offshore team to work.