Posts tagged with the "Outsourcing" tag
Clouding the Outsourcing Issue, part 2
January 5, 2012 | 4 Comments Don't bother trying to reach me the next few weekends; it’s playoff time in the NFL! I promised my wife way back when we started dating that she need not be a "football widow" every Sunday during the season. However, our relationship has spanned roughly the same time period as the …Read More
Will You Source Them Here or There
December 27, 2011 | 2 Comments My wife often jokes that we had a child for the sole purpose of giving me a good reason to read Dr. Seuss' books on a regular basis. When she does this I object- vehemently; she is absolutely wrong! I would most definitely read Dr. Seuss whether or not I …Read More
CRASH Report Exposes Millions in Technical Debt
December 8, 2011 | 1 Comment This year has been marked by high-profile outages and security breaches at global organizations like Sony, Sega, RIM, Citi, RSA, Honda, the International Monetary Fund the International Olympic Committee and multiple airlines, not to mention the U.S. Department of Defense. What each of these have in common is they each …Read More
Toast, Coffee & Software Quality
November 7, 2011 | Be the first to comment! Last week’s admissions of bugs in newly released software by Apple and Google were just the latest reminders that the battle between bringing software products to market quickly and optimizing software quality is coming to a head in a year that has seen far more than its share of software …Read More
Become an Outsourcing Over-SEA-er
October 26, 2011 | Be the first to comment! As a parent to a young kid, nights out are pretty rare. But every now and then, my daughter's "Auntie Ellen" will throw us a bone and watch our daughter overnight so we can hit the town. We're very grateful, of course, but more often than not, our daughter returns …Read More
CAST-ing Quality on HCL’s Assessment Services
October 5, 2011 | Be the first to comment! CAST announced today an agreement with HCL Technologies, a leading global IT services company, that will augment the outsourcing company’s ASEESS-SMART software assessment services with CAST’s Application Intelligence Platform (AIP) capabilities of automated analysis and measurement. Of the agreement, Rajiv Sodhi, Sr. Corporate Vice President and Chief Customer Officer for Consumer …Read More
Clouding the Outsourcing Issue
September 22, 2011 | Be the first to comment! Back in August, "CIO Zone" posted a blog outlining the top five cloud computing trends. Smack-dab in the middle of the top five was this one: "Custom cloud computing services," which delved into how outsourced IT organizations must focus on automated software and become experts in migrating to SaaS, PaaS …Read More