In a classic software development, technology choice is left to the programmers’ company. This approach makes sense if the company have a broad variety of professionals, or if technology choice is obvious. But usually the development company offers solutions based on their staff skills, not the task.
So it seems logical to select the technologies first and the development company basing on it. The perfect way is to use independent consulting on this stage, but I’m going to give several guidelines on the technology choice here and brief overview of the most popular technologies in further materials.
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July 10th, 2008
5:53 pm
Guide
The software quality is a very popular theme. Every time you ask a development company about their higher price – you’ll hear about higher quality. This short guide will help non-programmers understand the meaning of development quality.
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Overview
When you start moving a software development project to offshore, the most obvious choise is a partnership with big companies. They are the first in search engine results, you could found them through advertizing and if you put your project to freelance auction, the first bids will come from big companies. But obvious variant isn’t always better.
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You want to start an offshore development, but heard about its pitfalls? Let’s find the smooth way by displaying and eliminating the risks.
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Found an old, but interisting article, named “The_Hidden_Costs_of_Offshore_Outsourcing“. Here are my comments to the points mentioned there.
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Let’s say you want some software to be developed. You have more or less fixed budget and you want your project to fit it. Here I’m describing the necessary steps to complete your project, based on my experience. Some things make look obvious, some may look questionable. But I hope, they are valueable in any case.
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