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Title: Minimising Risk in Outsourced ProjectsAuthor: Mansi Aggarwal
Summary: Outsourcing is the process of contracting a third party to do work on the behalf of the client that they have neither the skills or resources to perform in-house. It is usually more cost effective to contract out work than to hire someone in to complete the task in question. However, the benefits do come with some pitfalls.
Title: Empowered Outsourcing
Author: Ann Drinkwater
Summary: With a carefully selected vendor and realistic expectations, outsourcing can result in a tremendous increase in efficiency and effectiveness.
Title: The Beginners Guide to Creating Effective Meta Tags
Author: Duncan Haughey
Summary: A combination of good keyword rich copy and well thought out meta tags can drive significant volumes of traffic to your website.
Title: Strain Between Release Management (ITIL) and Project Work (PMBOK) - A Case Discussion
Author: John Ashman
Summary: This is a discussion of the tension and its mitigation between ITIL Release Management and Application Development (projects) and enhancements from a particular real world occurrence.
Title: Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
Author: Kirill Basikhin
Summary: Outsourcing software development work is riding high these days. Many companies and individuals prefer to go for software development outsourcing instead of doing it in-house. Software development work isn't an easy task as it involves a lot of planning, strategizing and testing.
Title: Managing IT Projects Offshore
Author: Duncan Haughey
Summary: Today many organisations have decided to move their IT development offshore to reduce costs and increase competitiveness. Work is sent to places such as India, China and Russia. The cost savings in these countries is considerable but the headline saving is only a small part of the equation.
Title: What is ITIL?
Author: Duncan Haughey
Summary: Since the mid 1990's ITIL has been promoted as a standard for IT Service Management. It is built on a process-model view of controlling and managing operations. ITIL promotes a quality approach to achieving business effectiveness and efficiency in the use of information systems.
Title: ITIL: Understanding and Using IT Service Management
Author: Alan Calder
Summary: Standing for IT Infrastructure Library, ITIL is a set of best practices that are at the heart of the IT Service Management approach.
Title: Reducing Your Cost of Quality
Author: Alan S. Koch, PMP
Summary: The Cost of Quality is a significant cost on any project, so prudent managers look for ways to keep those costs in check. The Quality costs we can control are things like performing reviews, preparing tests, and maintaining our QA infrastructure; Appraisal Costs. But there are also the Quality costs we cannot control.
Title: Successful Software Development - It's Not Rocket Science
Author: Duncan Haughey
Summary: People generally have a misconception that managing software development projects is hard. The reality is, if they manage certain pitfalls that are described in this article, managing software development projects becomes a cakewalk.
Title: Outsourcing Software Development to India
Author: An Indian Development Manager
Summary: The advantages and disadvantages of outsourcing software development to India. This article gives an insiders view of offshore outsourcing from within an Indian software company.
Title: Capability Maturity Model (CMM) Overview
Author: Duncan Haughey
Summary: The Capability Maturity Model (CMM) is a conceptual framework based on industry best practice, used to assess the process maturity, capability and performance of software development organisations. The framework offers organisations the opportunity to identify areas for software process improvement.
Title: Reaping the Benefits of Good User Requirements
Author: Duncan Haughey
Summary: A critical part of any software development project is the requirements gathering. If you are unclear about what is going to be delivered, how will you know when you get there?
Title: Outsourcing Software Development Offshore
Author: Duncan Haughey
Summary: The trend to offshore outsourcing is continuing at pace, with Gartner estimating that a quarter of all technology jobs will be based in low-cost countries such as India by 2008. This article looks at lessons learned from a year of offshore outsourcing.