PART 2 In Part 1, you met Neil Venketramen, and learned how he overcame the obstacles holding him back. Today you’ll meet another businessman and learn how he solved his biggest challenges. Web Development and Online Marketing: Growing Pains, Bottlenecks and Endless Work The Story “Sunday is meant to be your day off, when are…
PART 1 Over the last couple of decades, a very profound, yet often unnoticed trend, has been slowly taking root across pretty much every area of business… Operations that were once very individual to each business have become simpler, faster and often, commoditized. Logistics, admin, tax services and communications are provided by small groups of…
PART 1 One of the biggest questions people have about outsourcing is usually: “Will it work for my project?” The answer of course is… It depends. There are lots of situations where outsourcing can be extremely advantageous, and it would be impossible to go through them all in these blog posts. However, what we can do…
PART 2 In Part 1 we covered some of the things you need to do to start protecting your Intellectual Property. If you haven’t read it, click here to read. Registering and recording copyrights You know by now that you need a written agreement assigning you as the owner of the copyrights to any software…
PART 1 One of the greatest concerns you’re likely to have about outsourcing is how to protect your intellectual property (IP) and to be honest, you’d be foolish not to take precautions. Protecting your source code is probably your biggest worry but you should also think about your other IP as well, be it proprietary…
PART 2 In Part 1 we covered some of the things to ensure you have in place to be able to start measuring the success of your project. If you haven’t read it, click here to read. How to keep a Balanced Scorecard In the early 1990’s two doctors from Harvard Business School, Robert Kaplan…
PART 1 There are several different ways you can measure your outsourcing and the one you choose will mainly depend on your personal preference. If you have your own experience with software development then you could measure your outsourcing against your own expertise. You can judge the quality of programming yourself by how well it…
PART 2 In Part 1 we covered a number of tools that can be used to keep control of your project. If you haven’t read it, click here to read. How to successfully manage your outsourced projects If you’re entirely new to outsourcing or software development in general, then this section will be very useful;…
PART 1 There’s no doubt one of the most critical success factors in outsourcing is keeping control of your project, keeping it on track. If you’ve followed the directions so far, then it’s safe to say you’re going to choose a good vendor. However, this is only half the battle for keeping control of your…
PART 2 In Part 1, we showed you how to Search for and Assess vendors for your outsourcing project. Click here if you haven’t read Part 1. Now we’ll move on and show you how to Choose a Winner. Step 3: Choose a winner Now you have your short-list of vendors who all fit your…