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A software solutions company out-sourced a ground-up application build to a team of globally distributed independent consultants. The project eventually exceeded time and cost expectations and failed to deliver production ready tested software according to a planned market release window. The asserted reasons for this planned versus actual delta varied with time including failure of leadership, failure...
Elastic Path software and Luxoft present in this case study a successful distributed agile project using outsourcing (both near and off shore). Elastic Path and Luxoft are both experienced agile practitioners, which helped immensely in so far as neither client nor vendor had to learn how to do agile while trying to overcome the difficulties in implementing agile in a distributed manner. The case study...
The paper describes ways to support outsourcing arrangements using collaborative technologies. It identifies outsourcing falling into the general class of socio-technical systems. It then suggests any supporting systems must emphasize both the social arrangements as well as any functionality needed to carry out the outsourcing goal. At the same time they should provide the dynamic capability to change...
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