There’s no secret that software development outsourcing is now involving many companies all over the world. Significant part of them outsources, and even more significant part provides outsourcing services. And yet, there are companies planning to dive into outsourcing where they see the means of cutting costs, or an access to the necessary expertise they [...]
Jun
Nine Outsourcing Deal Strategies
Despite the hard times, there is an optimism in the sphere of development outsourcing about the raise in IT deals, driven by enterprises searching to improve efficiency and cut costs. The character of those deals will change in favour of short-term deals rather than long-term contracts, according to Gartner. However, customers in their cost-cutting haste [...]
Jun
Some Words on Rightshoring
If continue talking about outsourcing trends, then some words should be said about such phenomenon as rightshoring, which starts gaining its popularity.
Is it a new type of outsourcing, like offshoring, inshoring, nearshoring? Well, not exactly. In fact, rightshoring is an approach to outsourcing which lies in finding a mix of off-shore, in-shore, and nearshore outsourcing [...]
Jun
Outsourced Product Development. Defining Your Vendor’s in Trouble
Gartner has recently predicted the falling of prices in the IT sector of services market, including outsourcing. This may sound good news for the customers. However, the meaning of the falling prices is not so bright, as this may drive many outsourcing providers out of business. Thus, the customers will suffer as well, because waking [...]
Jun
New Outsourcing Trends: Short-term Deals and Nearshorring
In the beginning of the year there’ve been lots of predictions about the tendencies in outsourcing. The analysts considered consolidation, globalization, and strategy of long-term, formalized outsourcing relations as outsourcing perspectives.
Now, as almost half a year has passed, the analysts speak about new trends in outsourcing that are most likely to catch on in the [...]
Jun
How Agile Benefits Software Outsourcing
In the recent past, waterfall methods of software development have been used widely in in-house and off-shore projects. A waterfall method included different project stages, such as design of requirements, creation of specifications, developing, testing, and finally release, performed in a consecutive order. Thus, if one phase is fulfilled, only then the project could move [...]
Jun
Three Typical Contract Models for Software Outsourcing
Outsourcing software development has become a common practice for many companies that wish to cut development costs, or give the in-house team concentrate on their core activities, or cover the lack of local specialists. Well, when a company has thought over their needs, have made the decision about a provider, it’s time to work out [...]

