Blog Category Outsourcing

In the tech world – and then some – running a successful business is about making things happen in a way that works for both the service provider and the client. You need to get the word out, somehow, though. There are many ways and tools to do this quite inexpensively and effectively. Some say […]

We have a different approach that it’s not offshoring or off-putting. Nearsoft was created by people who faced the same problem you are facing today: a shortage of developers, limited budgets, and bad offshoring options. So, we built the company we wish we could have worked with to grow our own development team. How We […]

If you are easily disturbed by pure technical gore, don’t read this.

When it comes to software outsourcing, not everything is milk and honey. It’s only fair to highlight some grim facts, too.

Please read on and grab onto your seats.

Be careful and thoughtful what you name your company. The story behind the name often sets the tone.

We finally got our slide player up and running and we are showcasing it with Our Hero’s Journey, a comic-like story of what many of our clients go through when they decide to grow their development team with Nearsoft.

We just finished putting together Our Hero’s Journey, a comic-like story of what many of our clients go through when they decide to grow their development team with Nearsoft.

Recently, a contact at a company based outside Vancouver wrote us about what he doesn’t like about “outsourcing” software development:

“I am regularly called by people wanting me to “take advantage” of their software outsourcing, but it is usually outsourcing to far away places. The time zone difference alone makes this an unattractive proposition for me.”

Estimates are the bane of software development. They are rarely right.

You are about to start a new project, congratulations!  You are starting an exciting journey where you will gain new experience, learn some lessons and remove some barriers.  You’ll figure out something here and there, but absolutely nothing that you can’t deal with.  Unless, that is, you screw up the whole thing from the very start.  If you are in software development, I bet you know how to do that.  I certainly do.

In a previous post, I wrote about how teams struggle with the same problems over and over. In this post I add a few more common mistakes and how to address them.