Archive for the ‘Outsourcing’ Category

Local Outsourcing for Software Development

As of 2005, the U.S. Census Bureau ranked Kansas City 40th by population. A well known transportation, finance/banking, telecommunications, and agriculture hub—companies like Sprint, Kansas City Southern Railroad, Associated Grocers, and YRC Worldwide are based in Kansas City. The area is blessed with a wealth of talented software development teams either in “captivity” [...]

Outsourcing Overseas…Too Hard to Oversee?

RHT paid for a survey of 1,400 CIO’s and published some interesting results with respect to outsourcing software development work. The results came out earlier this year and confirmed the points we routinely make in discussions with clients, prospects, and others in our field.
The study found that a small percentage—around 5%—currently outsource overseas. Ninety percent [...]