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<title>8 Ways to Overcome Your Fears of Outsourcing</title>
<description>8 Ways to Overcome Your Fears of Outsourcing

You have probably heard the stories: Software that does not work. Software that does the wrong thing. Money paid to set up an offshore operation that never produces any software. Can these outsou...</description>
<link>http://www.financealley.com/article_10417_15.html</link>
<pubDate>29th September 2005</pubDate>
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<title>20 Questions To See If You Are Ready To Outsource</title>
<description>Some companies are jumping into software outsourcing before they are ready. They hire a team, sometimes the wrong one, and then expect them to start producing software right away. In their rush, they skip the planning, goal setting and careful evaluation ...</description>
<link>http://www.financealley.com/article_9884_15.html</link>
<pubDate>25th September 2005</pubDate>
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<title>Use An MRD To Control Your Outsourcing</title>
<description>Is your software development process as unpredictable as the weather? Is your software casting a shadow causing six more weeks of programming? Are you using a marketing requirements document (MRD) or magic to predict your software release schedule?

Ear...</description>
<link>http://www.financealley.com/article_9046_15.html</link>
<pubDate>15th September 2005</pubDate>
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<title>Measuring The Success Of Your Outsourcing</title>
<description>"If you can't measure it, you can't manage it." - Peter Drucker

Many people fear that outsourced software development means having little or no control over the development process. They think there is no need to measure while the programmers are there...</description>
<link>http://www.financealley.com/article_7871_15.html</link>
<pubDate>08th September 2005</pubDate>
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<title>Use QA As Your First Step To Outsourcing</title>
<description>Quality Assurance, or QA, is often given short shrift in a software development organization, especially when budgets are tight. When debating the software development budget at one of my software companies, the CEO finally asked, "Well, do you really wan...</description>
<link>http://www.financealley.com/article_7180_15.html</link>
<pubDate>31st August 2005</pubDate>
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<title>Avoid These Seven Deadly Dangers Of Outsourcing</title>
<description>Here are seven dangers of outsourcing your software development. They become deadly if your career or entire company depends on the timely release of your software.

Danger #1- Ignoring Outsourcing
It may seem safer to ignore outsourcing and stick with...</description>
<link>http://www.financealley.com/article_6282_15.html</link>
<pubDate>24th August 2005</pubDate>
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