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		<title>List of Outsourcing Advisors</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 18:45:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Krym</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After my post on outsourcing governance I received a few emails raising the topic of outsourcing advisory. And that prompted me to do a bit of a deeper dive into the world of corporate matchmaking / marriage counseling – helping companies to find offshore vendors and later on help them with governance and management of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pragmaticoutsourcing.com&amp;blog=4587662&amp;post=1396&amp;subd=nkrym&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Sep 2010 11:42:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Krym</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Continuing with a line of travel guides I turn to the most common outsourcing destination – India. There are a plenty of outstanding travel guides for India, so if you are planning to combine business and pleasure, and see places such as the Agra, Rajasthan, and Kerala make sure you study them before you depart.  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pragmaticoutsourcing.com&amp;blog=4587662&amp;post=1222&amp;subd=nkrym&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pragmatic Outsourcer, v. 1.0</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:17:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Krym</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first volume of Pragmatic Outsourcer – the book primarily based on the materials of this blog is almost ready. There still a few things to clean up, pictures to pick, codes to request but I can see the light in the end of tunnel. The volume is going to be published as e-book and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pragmaticoutsourcing.com&amp;blog=4587662&amp;post=1027&amp;subd=nkrym&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bidding Sites and Building Frustration</title>
		<link>http://pragmaticoutsourcing.com/2009/08/10/bidding-sites-and-building-frustration/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2009 16:06:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Krym</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A couple weeks ago I put an RFP out for a very specific set of SEO activities on one of bidding sites. This SEO project was for my darling app – WWHOW!.  Since WWHOW! is based on user generated content it offers serious SEO challenges. Having spent a few months fighting those I knew fairly [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pragmaticoutsourcing.com&amp;blog=4587662&amp;post=964&amp;subd=nkrym&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Offshore Technical Due Diligence</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2009 16:41:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Krym</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A couple years ago I went through a technical due diligence (TDD) of several relatively small offshore vendors. The vendors were providing product development services for one of my clients, the vendors also supported operations of the SaaS for all of the products. The client had fully outsourced s/w product development and support to those [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pragmaticoutsourcing.com&amp;blog=4587662&amp;post=898&amp;subd=nkrym&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Offshore, Nearshore, Right Shore, Best Shore… oh My</title>
		<link>http://pragmaticoutsourcing.com/2009/02/26/offshore-nearshore-right-shore-best-shore%e2%80%a6-oh-my/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2009 17:11:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Krym</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As we can see generating x-shore names is a popular among all kind of companies even established players such as capgemini and eds jumped on band-naming wagon. It won’t take long till someone trademarks smartshore or ezshore or put a copyright on the word shore – too bad all nautical charts would have to be [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pragmaticoutsourcing.com&amp;blog=4587662&amp;post=743&amp;subd=nkrym&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>10 Myths of Offshore IT Outsourcing Revised</title>
		<link>http://pragmaticoutsourcing.com/2009/02/19/10-myths-of-offshore-it-outsourcing-revised/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2009 16:34:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Krym</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Google search on 10 myths in offshore outsourcing brings a few good articles written 3 – 7 years ago, some of them are still worth looking at even though some of the top myths lost their mystical nature, some debunked myths turned out to be facts, so it is worth taking a new look at [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pragmaticoutsourcing.com&amp;blog=4587662&amp;post=712&amp;subd=nkrym&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>10 Things you Don’t Want Offshore Vendor to Know</title>
		<link>http://pragmaticoutsourcing.com/2009/02/17/10-things-you-don%e2%80%99t-want-offshore-vendor-to-know/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2009 20:36:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Krym</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am an avid proponent of open communications and believe the more partners know about each other the better are the chances for the partnership to be successful. There are still a lot of things that you should keep to yourself for the same general reason – to increase the chances of the partnership being [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pragmaticoutsourcing.com&amp;blog=4587662&amp;post=703&amp;subd=nkrym&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Top 10 Reasons NOT to Outsource</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2009 19:01:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Krym</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Remi Vespa suggested an interesting topic in his 10 reasons NOT to outsource; while I agree with most of the points he made, my top 10 would be somewhat different: 1. No reasons to outsource. Let me clear a suspected circular reference here: take a look at my earlier posts Top reasons for outsourcing and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pragmaticoutsourcing.com&amp;blog=4587662&amp;post=624&amp;subd=nkrym&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Outsourcing Impact on Technology Choice</title>
		<link>http://pragmaticoutsourcing.com/2008/10/22/outsourcing-impact-on-technology-choice/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2008 00:26:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Krym</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I find LinkedIn to be a good idea generator for blog topics, for example a question from Vinay Joshi “.Net OR Java what technology projects you outsource &#8212; Does technology matter for making decision to whether outsource or not? …” deserves substantial discussion, beyond my brief answer on the site; especially considering that the rest [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pragmaticoutsourcing.com&amp;blog=4587662&amp;post=310&amp;subd=nkrym&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pros and Cons of Outsourcing to India</title>
		<link>http://pragmaticoutsourcing.com/2008/10/19/pros-and-cons-of-outsourcing-to-india/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Oct 2008 04:51:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Krym</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[India offers the most developed, experienced and sophisticated outsourcing community. No surprise – embedded advantage of ESL, huge supply of IT talent, and low standards of living made it a top destination for IT outsourcing long time ago. Y2K and management talent solidified the success creating multi-billion dollar giants and changing ethnic landscape of many [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pragmaticoutsourcing.com&amp;blog=4587662&amp;post=303&amp;subd=nkrym&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pros and Cons of Outsourcing QA</title>
		<link>http://pragmaticoutsourcing.com/2008/10/15/pros-and-cons-of-outsourcing-qa/</link>
		<comments>http://pragmaticoutsourcing.com/2008/10/15/pros-and-cons-of-outsourcing-qa/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2008 19:55:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Krym</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I saw a question on LinkedIn early this morning on a topic I was planning to cover “Pros and Cons of QA Outsourcing” – I jumped to the answer and typed up an answer while on BART, ironically it turned out to be too big for LinkedIn and so I decided to put it here. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pragmaticoutsourcing.com&amp;blog=4587662&amp;post=285&amp;subd=nkrym&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Outsourcing Myths: Turnover Ratio</title>
		<link>http://pragmaticoutsourcing.com/2008/10/08/outsourcing-myths-turnover-ratio/</link>
		<comments>http://pragmaticoutsourcing.com/2008/10/08/outsourcing-myths-turnover-ratio/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 01:25:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Krym</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The impact of turnover on the total cost of outsourcing is difficult to overstate. Of course you know that and put a turnover question as one of the most important ones in the beginning of your RFP. You look at the proposal that just came back from your vendor and see 18% as the response, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pragmaticoutsourcing.com&amp;blog=4587662&amp;post=246&amp;subd=nkrym&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ready to Outsource?</title>
		<link>http://pragmaticoutsourcing.com/2008/10/06/ready-to-outsource/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2008 18:14:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Krym</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Organization outsourcing maturity is one of the most important ingredients for an outsourcing initiative. Attempts to force outsourcing to an organization that is not prepared / not ready for it are likely to fail and chances are with a lot of collateral damage. That is true for any outsourcing initiative, not only for offshore; well, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pragmaticoutsourcing.com&amp;blog=4587662&amp;post=229&amp;subd=nkrym&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Offshore Developer Rates</title>
		<link>http://pragmaticoutsourcing.com/2008/09/26/offshore-developer-rates/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Sep 2008 22:42:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Krym</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What is a fair rate for a mid-level Java developer working offshore? Seems like a simple question, yet the answer you are likely to receive from anyone familiar with the subject is “It depends…” A fair rate you need to negotiate towards to with your supplier depends on many attributes and circumstances. Here are the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pragmaticoutsourcing.com&amp;blog=4587662&amp;post=209&amp;subd=nkrym&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Offshore Risks: Team and Personal Impacts</title>
		<link>http://pragmaticoutsourcing.com/2008/09/23/offshore-risks-team-and-personal-impacts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Sep 2008 02:36:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Krym</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Transferring even a small portion of your development offshore has inevitable impacts on your team and yourself. The impact could be dramatic to a degree that it defeats the purpose of outsourcing. Each of the dimensions of the impact should be considered a risk that needs mitigation plan and is dealt with efficiently through out [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pragmaticoutsourcing.com&amp;blog=4587662&amp;post=179&amp;subd=nkrym&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Offshore Vendor Selection: Site Visits</title>
		<link>http://pragmaticoutsourcing.com/2008/09/19/offshore-vendor-selection-site-visits/</link>
		<comments>http://pragmaticoutsourcing.com/2008/09/19/offshore-vendor-selection-site-visits/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Sep 2008 23:42:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Krym</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The idea of this post partially came from Offshore Visits. Tom’s post is about visits to an existing vendor, the visits during vendor selection process are quite different though. I am fairly convinced that the unwritten rule – “must visit perspective vendor site to make a selection” was originated by offshore sales force. This is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pragmaticoutsourcing.com&amp;blog=4587662&amp;post=172&amp;subd=nkrym&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Top 10 Technology Tasks to Outsource</title>
		<link>http://pragmaticoutsourcing.com/2008/09/12/top-10-technology-tasks-to-outsource/</link>
		<comments>http://pragmaticoutsourcing.com/2008/09/12/top-10-technology-tasks-to-outsource/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Sep 2008 21:16:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Krym</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you listen to an offshore vendor you will quickly learn the top 10 or 1000 tasks you should outsource. The chances are anything and everything that you do will be on that list. And that would be the list of things the vendor wants you to outsource. Take a look for example at Top [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pragmaticoutsourcing.com&amp;blog=4587662&amp;post=150&amp;subd=nkrym&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Selling offshore concept to your organization</title>
		<link>http://pragmaticoutsourcing.com/2008/09/11/selling-offshore-concepts-to-your-organization/</link>
		<comments>http://pragmaticoutsourcing.com/2008/09/11/selling-offshore-concepts-to-your-organization/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2008 06:30:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Krym</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let’s assume that you are sufficiently sold on the idea of using offshore. If you are not, stop right there. You will not be able to sell your organization on any idea unless you believe it 100% yourself. There will be a plenty of people wildly against offshore and unless you are true champion of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pragmaticoutsourcing.com&amp;blog=4587662&amp;post=143&amp;subd=nkrym&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Vendor Selection in China</title>
		<link>http://pragmaticoutsourcing.com/2008/09/09/vendor-selection-in-china/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2008 16:52:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Krym</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This post is a summary of vendor selection trip to China made for a purpose of s/w outsourcing initiative for a midsized product company. The main focus of the trip was “profiling” of the vendors that made on a short list after a rather involved RFP process. Profiling involved in-depth interviews of employees ranging from [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pragmaticoutsourcing.com&amp;blog=4587662&amp;post=136&amp;subd=nkrym&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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