http://www.stevemezak.com Insights and comments on global outsourcing Tue, 12 May 2009 18:35:57 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en One of the engagement model choices for outsourcing your software development I have described in the past is the Body Shop. Another name used by Reza Imam in his recent article is Software Sweatshop! The problem is in most cases, you don’t need just bodies (sweating or dry) to develop your ... http://www.stevemezak.com/?p=162 The Accelerance website and email is down this morning due to a major outage at our hosting provider Earthlink. Even the Earthlink website is down. I found the support number and called but you know how that goes - no humans actually answer the phone. A message said some Earthlink ... http://www.stevemezak.com/?p=161 A couple weeks ago I attended the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco. One of the sessions was on iPhone Tips and Tricks delivered by Alex Shah from Team SOA. The basic idea is that you can avoid the development time and the Apple App Store approval process for your ... http://www.stevemezak.com/?p=160 Gartner predicts that Outsourcing Prices Could Fall 10%. It is hard to judge the accuracy of these reports because they cover several different categories of outsourced IT services – datacenter, helpdesk and network services – besides just software development. But there is no question that business is less than booming ... http://www.stevemezak.com/?p=159 A bad experience with outsourcing in the past can really give you a sour attitude about trying it again. Some people have a visceral reaction whenever they hear the "O" word - Outsourcing. Perhaps they tried to "purchase" outsourcing services in the past and negotiated such a "good deal", they ... http://www.stevemezak.com/?p=158 Paula and I just published some video clips on YouTube that she recorded during the Tour of Anchorage. Here they are: 25K Tour of Anchorage - Start: Steve Mezak and Team in Training teammates in wave 6 of stride skiers at the start of the 25K Tour of Anchorage at 9:40am ... http://www.stevemezak.com/?p=156 The jet airplane screamed overhead on takeoff as I made my way along the ski trail that passes the Anchorage airport runway during the Tour of Anchorage ski marathon. I was a well past the halfway point on the course that started at Russian Jack Park and then wound its ... http://www.stevemezak.com/?p=155 I completed the 25 km Tour of Anchorage ski marathon today. It took me about 3 hours and 45 minutes. I think that was a pretty good time since I thought it would take me over four hours based on my speed during training. Steve Approaching the Finish of the Tour ... http://www.stevemezak.com/?p=154 I'm in the hotel room and will head down to the lobby in about 30 minutes to get on the bus with my skis. I'm a little nervous but was able to eat a good breakfast and take my vitamins. I'm ready to go. Before getting on the bus with my ... http://www.stevemezak.com/?p=153 Arrived in Anchorage on Friday afternoon and got checked into the Marriott hotel. Not exactly roughing it but it IS cold outside dropping to the single digits at night and getting up into the twenties F (< 0 C) during the day. Getting Our Skis at the Anchorage Airport I did a ... http://www.stevemezak.com/?p=152