Hi, I'm looking to outsource some web development projects which I will not have the time to complete for my clients. Are there existing Agreement/Contract pro-forma's available (I've only seen 1 on the web, but it's from the standpoint of the outsourcee[service provider]). What clauses do you think are wise to include in the agreem...
My situation: I'm a software developer that's taking on new responsibilities as a development manager. Most of my team is overseas or in Canada (I'm in the US). They're all professionals and range from junior to senior level in development. Our code is written in C# and runs everything from the e-commerce site to the production floor. We...
Hello, I'm Chandan, I work as freelance Programmer and Website Design / Development. Lately I got quite a bunch a projects and I want to outsource one of them. What points should I include the Agreement between the Programmer and my Company. We already agreed on a price and we agreed to have source code and software also included. Pl...
Hello Guys, I need to setup testing LAMP environment in my office to work with outsourcing companies. This is what I think should be done on my side: Setup testing web server with the same configuration as on production Setup testing SQL server with "fake data"? Outsourcers should have access only to some part of original code Outso...
Possible Duplicate: Protection of code from its own developers My company is planning in hiring outsourcers to work for us, but concerned to give whole existing code to outside world. What is the proper way to deal with security of sharing code in such cases? Is it possible to restrict part of code for developers? So each o...
I've come across this story quite a few times here in the UK: NHS Computer System Summary: We're spunking £12 Billion on some health software with barely anything working. I was sitting the office discussing this with my colleagues, and we had a little think about. From what I can see, all the NHS needs is a database + middle tier of ...
Outsourcing is typically disliked by programmers, but does anyone know any empirical studies of the cost/benefits of outsourcing for a company? I'm not looking for personal experiences here (as entertaining/frightening as they may be), but for actual research studies. ...
Say I have a mturk task such as follows: 1) Find a website about lawn chairs. 2) Send me the URL. And I want 500 mturkers to work on this. How do I ensure that they give me unique URLs that no one else has submitted? Is there some easy way to accomplish this? ...
A small web development group (less than 15 people) I do some work for is looking at outsourcing some work. Through a series of random events they will soon be without a front end developer and a graphic designer. Rather than hire these positions back on, there is talk of outsourcing the work to a group in a nearby state that manages d...
At my workplace we want to outsource some parts of our software development project to an external contractor (another company with multiple developers). Our greatest fear is that although all functional requirements will be met, the code may be very bad, as it is often the case with outsourced software projects. We can't use any of the...
I am a software developer and I am planning to develop a mobile app. I am not really good in designer tools and creative stuff thus I would like to outsource the asset creation part of my project. Can you please recommend me good sites where I can do this? Recommendations with personal experience are very welcome! ...
As a freelancer, if you are working on a project, and if you outsource the development of a unit or a small component - would it be ethical to do this given that the client is not aware that some development is being developed by a third party? ...
I am evaluating 3rd party services to handle our webapps email. Requirements: Tracking bounces HTML email Customer headers Incoming email queue (Post email to some URL?) Spam filtering of incoming email Handle SMTP server issues, authentication, whitelisting, keys, etc Support attached images as well as embedded images from an URL Rea...
Any recommendations for eastern-bloc IT outsource companies? ...