Executive Summary

Risk Analysis for Agile Outsourcing

Posted March 31, 2006 | Technology |

There are two parallel trends in the field of IT that try to address the expense associated with developing quality software. The first is the adoption of various agile software development methodologies, such as Extreme Programming (XP) and Scrum, and the second is the trend to outsource software development offshore to countries where wages are significantly less than in the US.

About The Author
Mark Choate
Mark S. Choate is an author and Senior Consultant for Transparensee Systems, a company specializing in search and discovery tools that provide fuzzy matching, faceted search, data visualization, and free text search. He is the author of Professional Wikis. Prior to joining Transparensee, Mr. Choate was cofounder of The Choate Group; a lecturer at Georgetown University's Communication, Culture, and Technology (CCT) graduate program; and former VP… Read More
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