The Power of Proximity: How Colocated Lean-Agile Teams Deliver Better Project Outcomes with Fewer Resources

Posted April 30, 2009 | Leadership | Leadership |

For the past 10 years, offshoring has been held up as the most cost-effective IT service delivery model for IT projects of all types. Now that offshoring has become well established throughout the software development industry, it is time to review the practice using real project metrics to see if it actually delivers on its promises.

About The Author
Mark Thias
Mark Thias is a Partner in Lean Agile Partners, Inc., and a Lean-Agile Coach, Instructor, and Systems Software Architect with 20 years of software development experience. Most recently, Mr. Thias was a Lean-Agile Consultant implementing agile engineering practices within development teams as well as the corresponding project management practices at the corporate level. He successfully converted numerous large offshore teams to small, colocated… Read More
Warren Cohen
Moshe Cohen
Moshe Cohen is President of The Negotiating Table, a firm that provides mediation services to people in conflict as well as negotiation and conflict management training. Since founding the firm in 1995, Mr. Cohen has mediated hundreds of disputes in a variety of settings and in a multitude of topic areas, including workplace and employment disputes, discrimination complaints, torts, civil litigation, landlord-tenant evictions, divorce, family,… Read More
Beth Cohen
Beth Cohen is President of Luth Computer Specialists, Inc., a consulting practice specializing in IT infrastructure strategy. She has more than 25 years of experience building strong IT delivery organizations from both the user and vendor perspectives. Most recently, Ms. Cohen was Operations Director for Dossia, a company building a portable medical record Web portal designed to handle millions of records securely and transparently. Previously,… Read More
Pini Cohen
Pini Cohen is a senior research analyst at STKI (SCHWARZKOPF The Knowledge Integrators), formally with association to META Group. His area of expertise is architecture and infrastructure: storage, servers, DBMS, application servers, application integration (EAI), SOA, and developing tools. Prior to joining STKI, Mr. Cohen was a Captain in the Israel Air Force (IAF) computer division. In this position he negotiated with the major computer vendors… Read More
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Ralph Cohen
Ralph Cohen has more than 20 years' experience in market, geopolitical, and competitive intelligence, product management, and business development. He is currently an environmental industry analyst and consultant for Strategic Intelligence Partners (SIP), where he specializes in green IT, sustainability, and related areas. Before SIP, Mr. Cohen was a voice and data services product and market intelligence manager for XO Communications. He has… Read More
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