Some businesses operate upon outsourcing. Some outsource their IT needs and focus on their core activities, which is a cost-effective solution for them. And some business people dislike the very idea of outsourcing for different reasons, including bad communication, poor quality of outcome, failed expectations, unreliability of the whole operation, and so on. Actually, like every...

"We are uncovering better ways of developing software by doing it and helping others do it.
Through this work we have come to value:


Individuals and interactions over processes and tools
Working software over comprehensive documentation
Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
Responding to change over following a plan

That is, while there is...

There might be even more ways to fail a project, than to make it succeed; and this can be achieved with less effort. First we have to define a failure: it's either if the project is never finished (including the cancellation); or it fails a critical deadline; or the software is of remarkably bad quality; or the spent budget is beyond reason. Of course, there may be various combinations of these. Failures have a huge rate;...

The practice of outsourcing is widely discussed today; it's used in many industries and branches of business. And if you know the time has come to start or enhance business with mobile software, outsourcing may be the most obvious choice in terms of quality and costs. But this choice must be deliberate; just like any other business, outsourcing bears inevitable risks, which can be ignored, prevented, delegated, or subdued (after an undesirable scenario occurs). Let's outline five such scenarios...