Accelerance CEO Steve Mezak is a veteran of six Silicon Valley startups, including Aspect Development (sold to i2 for $9 Billion) and Digital Market (sold to Agile Software for $75 Million). Steve has mastered global software development in a variety of management and technical roles, including CTO and CEO with more than 25 years of software development experience. An internationally acclaimed speaker and author, Steve's most recent book is Software without Borders: A Step-By-Step Guide to Outsourcing Your Software Development. Steve helps make small companies and entrepreneurs wealthy by helping them develop software products with pre-approved global software development teams. Download his free whitepaper describing the benefits of using a global partner network online. Contact Steve at steve@Accelerance.com. Steve Mezak
Accelerance CEO Steve Mezak is a veteran of six Silicon Valley startups, including Aspect Development (sold to i2 for $9 Billion) and Digital Market (sold to Agile Software for $75 Million). Steve has mastered global software development in a variety of management and technical roles, including CTO and CEO with more than 25 years of software development experience. An internationally acclaimed speaker and author, Steve's most recent book is Software without Borders: A Step-By-Step Guide to Outsourcing Your Software Development. Steve helps make small companies and entrepreneurs wealthy by helping them develop software products with pre-approved global software development teams. Download his free whitepaper describing the benefits of using a global partner network online. Contact Steve at steve@Accelerance.com. Success Stories of Offshore Software Development
The most important piece of your software requirements is describing how you want your software to behave when your customers use it. It is the use cases and user stories: the sequence of steps the various kinds of your users will carry out in going from screen to screen of the application to accomplish the [...]
The Six Offshoring Engagement Models
Selecting the right kind of engagement model with your offshore programmers (or the company where they work) is the best way to ensure you get more dynamic engineers that will deliver your software with the level of quality you would expect from your own software engineers in the U.S.
Even excellent project management will feel like [...]
Are Your Programmers Dynamic or Transactional?
Offshoring of software development is written off by some as not workable. Many have shared offshoring nightmares and horror stories in articles and blog postings. A recent survey says small company CIOs say they have little interest in increasing their offshore outsourcing in 2008. And many have stopped outsourcing altogether because of management challenges.
94% Are [...]
Why Outsourcing Fails, Even with Good Project Management
The programming press and IT journals are full of stories about the failure of software outsourcing. The statistics are sobering. Less than 50% of outsourcing meets financial objectives. The outsourcing of many business processes besides software development also has the same less-than-stellar results.
Forrester reports the top three causes of outsourcing failure are:
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