Establishing and managing a business that utilizes an offshore team as part of its operation is a complex challenge. Cultural difference, time difference, and a lack of face-to-face time, all contribute to the intricate nature of the onshore/offshore model. But with the right approach, this model can yield extraordinary benefits for a business. In our …
When working with a client to develop custom software, it’s all about eliminating surprises. Project predictability, as it’s called, is an essential element that should be maintained throughout any software project. After all, providing business users with what they expect should be at the top of a vendor’s priority list. So how is this accomplished? …
Extensible Markup Language, or XML, is a formatting standard for data. It is a format that is used to tag data so the data can be moved between platforms. It is intended to make data files easily portable, understandable, and translatable over the web and other applications. Essentially, the goal of XML is to make …
Regardless of whether you have outsourced your software project domestically or offshore, having a project manager onsite with your company is an essential element to a successful project. Depending on the project, it may also be beneficial to have other onsite resources like a business analyst. In addition to this, your vendor should provide a …
As promised, this blog will take a deeper look at what process re-engineering actually consists of. Once again, process re-engineering is the practice of reviewing a business’s current processes, evaluating whether these processes are as effective and efficient as possible, and re-engineering them as necessary to achieve optimum performance. The first step in re-engineering is …
Oftentimes when a company is working with software that is inefficient, or not adequate for their purposes, they will create processes to work around its shortcomings. They make improvements to the system they already have, making it as usable as possible. In turn, they are subject to thinking that their operation is efficient because they …
Agile software development is a term that gets thrown around a lot lately. Agile methodologies are consistently hailed as being more efficient, economical, and resulting in a higher quality product. Ideally, every vendor that claims to be agile would uphold high standards in all areas of their methodology. But this doesn’t always happen. So rather …