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Welcome to the pages of Softheme company blog. During years of successful work in the sphere of software outsourcing we have accumulated the rich experience of project development of various complexity levels. We believe that it is time to share our knowledge base with the IT-community. |
This blog will contain constantly updated articles covering the topics of programming, website development, project management, and legal side of operation of an outsourcing company in Ukraine. We hope that our solutions and examples will prove to be useful to other participants of the IT outsourcing market. |
Archive for the ‘Dedicated team’ CategoryThe increased role of AgileWednesday, January 4th, 2012
Agile has become more than just one of the software development methodologies. Now it is the most common way of self-organization, that definitely dominates in IT-related professions. We decided to share some of our knowledge about Agile and offer our vision on implementing Agile into practice. (more…) Bookmark/Search this post with:
      65% firms offshore IT jobs - SIM SurveyWednesday, October 5th, 2011 IT outsourcing Seems like IT offshoring has become a usual thing for the majotiry of busnesses. The annual survey of IT budgets and technology trends by the Society of Information Management (SIM) found that 65% of companies use it for some aspects of their business. The survey covers CIOs and senior IT leaders at 275 companies mainly from the USA. The main outsourcing destinations are: India (58% ot those who use outsourcing), China (10%), Mexico (7%), Western Europe (6%), Eastern Europe (4%), Philippines and the Caribbean (4%), Russia and Brazil (both 3%), the survey said. Another good news is that IT spendings are not being cut. This year 83% of respondents claim that their IT budgets were equal or greater than the preveious year, and 85% have respective plans for the next year 2012. According to the survey, cost reduction is the last among the CIOs’ priorities. The reason is simple - companies want to leverage IT to reduce overall costs, instead of cutting it to achieve relatively insignificant saving. The top priorities for IT managers are: business agility, business process management, IT strategic planning, IT reliability and efficiency, enterprise architecture, security and revenue-generating IT innovations. The figures provided by SIM survey once again acknowledged that IT outsourcing is a good way to cope with the challenges facing IT leaders. We believe that in the future the percentage of those who outsource will become even greater and reach 80% in the next few years. You can learn more about other findings of SIM survey on Computerworld. Bookmark/Search this post with:
Software Outsourcing: Development Team vs. Dedicated CenterFriday, July 2nd, 2010In the presentation below we have tried to describe a Development Team and a Dedicated Center, the two different software outsourcing models, showing their main features and core advantages/disadvantages. Also, we have shown the types of solutions offered by Softheme for both software outsourcing models. Bookmark/Search this post with:
Software Outsourcing: Choosing a Model for a Dedicated TeamTuesday, June 22nd, 2010Dedicated team is a popular model for outsourcing of small-to-medium volumes of IT tasks. At Softheme we support a wide range of teams – from a one-person team to a team of up to 30 software specialists. The size of the dedicated team can be flexible within one engagement depending on the project needs. The customer has an ability to review the team members’ resumes, have a phone interview with the candidates. Basing on the ongoing feedback, we will be providing training, improving the team quality and structure, adjusting processes until the result model fully supports customer’s business needs.  Offshore Dedicated Development Team Bookmark/Search this post with:
Offshore Dedicated Centers: popular trend in outsourcingTuesday, April 13th, 2010Check out this new presentation which gives more insight into setting up an offshore dedicated center. It describes the main features of an offshore software development center, its benefits and flip sides, core setup steps, budget components, operational models, and many more. |
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