Want to outsource a project but don't know how to go about it? Scared about quality? This podcast as well as
The Tenets of Remote Development Governance will help.
In this podcast Craig, Jeff, Jason and Justin convey our recommendation on how to successfully partake in and manage remote development projects based on from our experience our collective involvement with outsourced projects. We've seen it all, we know the do's and the don'ts, so have a listen!
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development, offshore, outsourcing, remote
Please checkout the podcast on this topic! It's Episode 9
Remote Development Governance
Remote development is usually implemented as a cost saving measure, and thus it's only true metric of success is whether money was saved by augmenting a team with remote developers. After being in this business for close to a decade, I can personally recommend not making *money* your absolute metric of success. Do remote development teams cost you less? Yes, but, only if they deliver with quality and are managed properly. A lot of companies seem to jump into Remote Development without a real plan, if you want to succeed at a Remote Development initiative please read on.
The Tenets of Remote Development
The following are a set of rules for governing your remote development projects be them offshore or onshore. Apply these simple rules and you'll be on your way to successful development, don't go into remote development unprepared.
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Craig, General
offshore, offshoring, outsourcing
This week we grill our very own expert
Justin Lee about
Web Sockets. We ask what they are, how they are being used and how they'll change the web to come. Justin works on the
Grizzly Web Sockets project, take a look, experiment with it and create something cool!
In this episode we've started a news segment. We grabbed two of the DZone Big Links of the day which caught our eye. The topics were "The Outsourcing Low Cost Lie" and how the popular free text editor Notepad++ is leaving Source Forge over its policies concerning countries on a US blacklist.
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Note: Came under a bit of fire from one listener for my position on Offshoring/Outsourcing. It should be known (if not clear in the podcast) that I'm targeting the companies that plant Junior devs masquerading as Senior ones. People in other parts of the world are just as smart and talented than ones in North America, but just as it is here there are a lot of bad or inexperienced ones too. You can keep those ones mkaythxwtfbbq. In the next podcast I'll defend my position and hopefully you'll see I'm not anti-world-developers. I'm sure the other Basement Coders will share their experience and points of view as well.
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