Posts with keyword: outsourcing

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Kynetx Making Progress

Thu Jan 17 08:34:00 2008

I now have evidence that Kynetx is gaining momentum: I got my first call from an Indian "business process outsourcer" today asking if we had any programming work we wanted to outsource. They answer, by the way, is no. While I do believe that there is a role for outsourced programming and many places where it works very well, I don't foresee Kynetx doing much because of how I like to work. I build "two-pizza" teams--a programming team that you can feed lunch to with only two pizzas and I like my programmers close by. I think there is
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Barnett Interview Up

Wed Nov 30 06:37:00 2005

My interview with Thomas Barnett is live on IT Conversations. In the interview we talked about the concepts in his new book, his use of technology-base analogies to explain his ideas, blogging, and outsourcing. Doing the interview was a lot of fun--I hope it's as interesting to listen to. Tom has great appeal to the IT Conversations crowd (65,000 downloads of his last interview). Part of the reason is that he uses technology-based analogies to describe world events. But more than that, he also sheds lights on non-technical issues that techies care about. A sampling of two recent entries
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