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Outsourcing Software Projects

• How to meet QA responsibilities during a software tester shortage

  An organization facing a dire shortage of QA engineers can't just dump these tasks on developers. Here's how to keep up software quality with limited QA resources. Continue Reading

• Good teams come clean about their IT competence

  How is your company culture going to stay up to date on IT trends? Don't let that question linger, since, sooner or later, you'll work with a technology you don't understand at all. Continue Reading

• How do I find my career path in software testing?

  I've been a tester for many years and want to progress professionally. Yet, I'm struggling to find chances for advancement and a career path in software testing. Any pointers? Continue Reading

• Do in-house testers beat an outsourced security testing service?

  Security testing is very specialized. Is it better to outsource this effort or should in-house testers be responsible for security testing? Continue Reading

• How to best security test your applications: Collaboration and outsourcing

  Security testing is an important factor in the application development process, and fortunately there are specialists who work to ensure that applications are as secure as possible. However, it can be difficult to know when it is necessary to ... Continue Reading

• Practicing Scrum with outsourced QA teams

  QA and testing are integral parts of software development, and expert Lisa Crispin holds that the team operates more effectively when QA is not outsourced. However, when this isn't possible, the quality testing group must be involved in daily scrum ...Continue Reading

• Best practices for mixing Agile and outsourcing

  Software consultant Nari Kannan describes how to mix Agile practices with outsourcing. Some of the best practices that can be adopted to make this effort successful are reducing risks up front with hybrid Agile models, organizing work in special ...Continue Reading

• Test management: Measuring the performance of testing-- who tests the testers?

  By answering three questions, software test organizations can improve their effectiveness and the value of their services. In this tip with Software Quality Systems' director Ivan Ericsson, you'll learn the metrics needed to ensure an effective and ...Continue Reading

• QA manager role depends on communication, planning, capacity

  Improve the exchange of information in your organization to better fulfill your role as a QA manager with these three cornerstones.Continue Reading

• The future of software testing

  Should a business analyst invest time and money in software testing training or will testing jobs become scarce as more are moved offshore? Expert Mike Kelly offers his insight.Continue Reading

• Offshore outsourcing projects: Seven things every PM should know

  Project managers handling offshore outsourced software projects face extra challenges. PM expert Bas de Baar explains how managers can work with and learn from their foreign partners and employees.Continue Reading

• Trust on a global scale

  Globalization and the transparency of the Internet may lead to trickery and mediocrity, argues project management expert Bas de Baar. If reputations are known worldwide, then many people will either lie or avoid risk altogether.Continue Reading

• Collaboration and communication tools for virtual meetings

  Distributed teams need good tools in order to conduct productive meetings. Project management expert David Christiansen discusses communication and collaboration tools, including both proprietary and open source.Continue Reading

• Testing models and outsourcing

  Outsourcing testing is a may follow a collaborative model or a factory model. Expert John Overbaugh explores the testing outsourcing and how these two models work.Continue Reading

• Project management calls on a new set of skills

  Project management, Bas de Baar claims, is changing, and PMs will need a new set of skills. This new environment, he says, demands abilities traditionally associated with women.Continue Reading