Questions tagged [outsourcing]
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Company outsourced testing; how can we encourage programmers to stop overly relying on testers?
A friend of mine is working in a 200-employee company. The company's business has nothing to do with IT, but they do have an IT department to work, among others, on their website, used by the customers.
The website started with a core idea that…
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How can a non-technical person learn to write a spec for small projects?
How can a non-technical person learn to write specs for small projects?
A friend of mine is trying to outsource some development on a statistics project.
In particular, he does a lot of work in excel, and wants to outsource the creation of scripts…
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Why would you hire in-house software developers instead of outsourcing them to develop a product for your company?
Why would you hire in-house over outsourcing in developing a product for your company? I can only think of a few but I'm not entirely sure if they're good enough reason.
This is actually for a debate that I'm going to have in class. I'm more…
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Old programmer disappeared. About to hire another programmer. How do I approach this?
After spending over one year working on a social network project for me using WordPress and BuddyPress, my programmer has disappeared, even though he got paid every single week, for the whole period. Yes, he's not dead as I used an email tracker to…
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Is outsourcing (offshoring) disloyal?
I ask this from everyone's perspective. If you are in America and you outsource to offshore programmers, are you disloyal to your countrymen? If you are in India and you outsource to offshore programmers, are you disloyal to your countrymen? This…
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Is outsourcing code more expensive in the long term? Does it harm code quality?
I am aware of a company that owns the intellectual property of a decent software product and makes an excellent income from licensing per annum. However, the director (non technical) complains about the cost of maintaining the development team, as…
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Offshoring a Software Project -- Conflict Resolution
I had been tasked with managing a project which was outsourced to some Ukrainian developers.
The company hired them through Elance at a fixed price. At that point my boss left me alone to handle them and get the work done. I created a detailed…
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Is there a good site to hire programmers for little projects?
I need to a piece of php code that goes beyond my abilities so I need to hire somebody to do it. It's not really something too long or complex so I wanted to know if there was a straightforward way to post my request and find somebody to do it for a…
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Queries on online project outsourcing sites
I have been looking at RentACoder, Freelancer and eLance from last few years but I always hesitated to register at these site. Hesitation includes little worry too. These questions fill me:
(1) Is there a legal contract between the bidder and the…
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Outsourcing Quality Assurance and Testing
I was recently approached by a software firm that specializes in Quality Assurance and Testing.
Up until this point, the developers at our (small) company have been responsible for their own QA for the most part and we've had mixed results. We're at…
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Tips for / pitfalls of working on an outsourced project
My company has retained an outside firm to develop an iPhone app for us. As the only internal developer with any knowledge of Objective-C, I've been assigned to develop the relevant APIs on our site, but also to do anything I can to make sure the…
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A few classes versus 20 classes? A question about bloat
In evaluating the work of an outsourcing company, I have found that they have a propensity for dividing work into as many classes as possible, each one being testable. In some ways this seems commendable, but they are taking it to an extreme and no…
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After an outsourced/offshored application is "completed", who will do the maintenance?
What is the typical arrangement for the maintenance of applications that are not developed in-house?
Note: by maintenance, I mean bug fixes, optimizations, small modifications and future extensions.
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IEEE SRS documents: lightweight version when working with outside contractors?
Typically we follow an Agile development process that tends not to put an emphasis on writing requirements and technical documents that nobody will read. We tend to focus our limited manpower to development and testing activities with collaborative…
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What to look for in an outsourced partner
I'm working in a small startup as the sole developer in my spare time. We might need some more development help and are looking at an Indian company which comes recommended by someone we know (although they are not very technical).
I'll be having an…
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