Tips

Tips

Outsourcing Software Projects

• 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

• 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

• 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