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		<title>Search for SEO Experts</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 14:09:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Krym</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Search for SEO under Hire professional in eLance returns about 12,000 results, search under Projects returns about 600. So it’s roughly 20 providers per SEO project. Similar stats are on Guru, oDesk, GAF, etc. One would assume that I should have zero problems finding a professional for my SEO project, especially in this market and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pragmaticoutsourcing.com&#038;blog=4587662&#038;post=1109&#038;subd=nkrym&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Microsoft and Plurk outsourcing debacle</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 05:01:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Krym</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If your goals are not achievable you can use them as targets. Sounds like a strange proposition? Well, look at Microsoft – everyone and their brother love to use it as a target of hate, criticism, etc. It’s human nature – to consider success of others as own failure. Fortunately, Microsoft never ceases to offer [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pragmaticoutsourcing.com&#038;blog=4587662&#038;post=1072&#038;subd=nkrym&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Too Much of Good Thing</title>
		<link>http://pragmaticoutsourcing.com/2009/12/09/too-much-of-good-thing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 22:14:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Krym</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few days ago starting from a comment to my post I found a very interesting discussion of metrics on 360° Vendor Management. In his post Tony covered a few golden rules that are important to consider when introducing metrics in vendor management. I agree in general with most of the principles covered in the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pragmaticoutsourcing.com&#038;blog=4587662&#038;post=1040&#038;subd=nkrym&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Invisibility Cloak of MSA</title>
		<link>http://pragmaticoutsourcing.com/2009/11/16/invisibility-cloak-of-msa/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 17:20:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Krym</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Contract Negotiations]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Master Service Agreement (MSA) is intended to create a contractual framework for relationships between parties involved. Unfortunately way too often MSAs are used to protect intentional incompliance with a spirit of the agreement. When MSA is written and negotiated the parties bring to the table their knowledge of the domain, in this case offshore [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pragmaticoutsourcing.com&#038;blog=4587662&#038;post=1025&#038;subd=nkrym&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Force Majeure</title>
		<link>http://pragmaticoutsourcing.com/2009/09/30/force-majeure/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 12:21:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Krym</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Force Majeure (French for &#8220;superior force&#8221;), is a common clause in contracts which essentially frees both parties from liability or obligation when an extraordinary event or circumstance beyond the control of the parties, such as a war, strike, riot, crime, or an event described by the legal term &#8220;act of God&#8221; (e.g., flooding, earthquake, volcano), [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pragmaticoutsourcing.com&#038;blog=4587662&#038;post=1008&#038;subd=nkrym&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Basics of Non-verbal Communications</title>
		<link>http://pragmaticoutsourcing.com/2009/04/17/basics-of-non-verbal-communications/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2009 00:20:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Krym</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I started talking about body language and non-verbal communications (commonly referred as NVL) a while ago kicking off the discussion with a picture of consummate liar. NVL is a general topic that applies across industries and domains, the reason I bring it up here is that NVL is exceptionally important during face to face interactions [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pragmaticoutsourcing.com&#038;blog=4587662&#038;post=852&#038;subd=nkrym&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Darkest Side of Outsourcing</title>
		<link>http://pragmaticoutsourcing.com/2009/02/10/the-darkest-side-of-outsourcing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2009 16:43:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Krym</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While writing a post on a topic of personnel impact of the offshore outsourcing I had to go through a rather unpleasant exercise – I had to terminate one of my employees. Termination is never fun, it is particular painful on a backdrop of economy downturn. Through my career I had to let go a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pragmaticoutsourcing.com&#038;blog=4587662&#038;post=688&#038;subd=nkrym&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Top 10 Reasons NOT to Outsource</title>
		<link>http://pragmaticoutsourcing.com/2009/01/22/top-10-reasons-not-to-outsource/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2009 19:01:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Krym</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Making Offshore Decision]]></category>
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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&#038;blog=4587662&#038;post=624&#038;subd=nkrym&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pros &amp; Cons of Outsourcing to Latin America</title>
		<link>http://pragmaticoutsourcing.com/2008/11/11/pros-cons-of-outsourcing-to-latin-america/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2008 06:05:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Krym</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Latin America offers one of the best options for nearshore outsourcing for the USA and Canada. It also offers great resources for Spanish localization projects getting increasing important in the states. Latin America offers a large spectrum of options roughly corresponding to the countries in the region covering almost entire alphabet from Argentina to Venezuela. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pragmaticoutsourcing.com&#038;blog=4587662&#038;post=380&#038;subd=nkrym&#038;ref=&#038;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&#038;blog=4587662&#038;post=303&#038;subd=nkrym&#038;ref=&#038;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>
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		<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&#038;blog=4587662&#038;post=285&#038;subd=nkrym&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Offshore Destinations: Russia</title>
		<link>http://pragmaticoutsourcing.com/2008/10/14/offshore-destinations-russia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2008 17:08:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Krym</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was born in Moscow, USSR and the word &#8220;Russia&#8221; in my mind associates with a large empire of 15 republics. Things since than have changed dramatically and referring to some of the parts of ex-USSR as Russia is not just politically incorrect. Yet you are likely to hear about Russian outsourcing even if the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pragmaticoutsourcing.com&#038;blog=4587662&#038;post=275&#038;subd=nkrym&#038;ref=&#038;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&#038;blog=4587662&#038;post=136&#038;subd=nkrym&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>S/W Development Outsourcing: China vs. India</title>
		<link>http://pragmaticoutsourcing.com/2008/09/05/sw-development-outsourcing-china-vs-india/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2008 16:55:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Krym</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few months ago I went through a vendor selection process for a technology company in SF Bay Area. The goal was to find a vendor that would become a long-term partner / a part of a local development team. My clients were set on considering only two countries – India and China. The size [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pragmaticoutsourcing.com&#038;blog=4587662&#038;post=122&#038;subd=nkrym&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pros and Cons of doing business in China</title>
		<link>http://pragmaticoutsourcing.com/2008/09/02/pros-and-cons-of-doing-business-in-china/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 18:46:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Krym</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From 30,000’ view Pros and Cons of giving your outsourcing business to China could be summarized as Pros Comparatively low rates Low attrition rates Large pool of talent in many areas Superb work ethics of the workforce Well organized / highly disciplined organizations Staff’s desire to succeed (learning and becoming stronger professional rather than pure [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pragmaticoutsourcing.com&#038;blog=4587662&#038;post=92&#038;subd=nkrym&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Protecting Data and IP when Outsourcing Offshore</title>
		<link>http://pragmaticoutsourcing.com/2008/08/29/protecting-data-and-ip-when-outsourcing-offshore/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2008 18:31:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Krym</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Securing data when working with offshore is a well known yet a very challenging task. It’s especially serious if your company deals with financial or private data, such as ePHI (electronic protected health information). In some way though dealing with data protection in offshore scenario while complex is a straight forward task, especially for companies [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pragmaticoutsourcing.com&#038;blog=4587662&#038;post=77&#038;subd=nkrym&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Top outsourcing risks</title>
		<link>http://pragmaticoutsourcing.com/2008/08/26/top-outsourcing-risks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 00:28:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Krym</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Putting development of your product or any other aspect of technology in the hands of a third party is certainly a risky proposition. To properly mitigate the risks of outsourcing one needs to understand the outsourcing landscape quite well. The top offshore outsourcing risks fall in several main categories. There is much to be said [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pragmaticoutsourcing.com&#038;blog=4587662&#038;post=46&#038;subd=nkrym&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Not yet ready for China</title>
		<link>http://pragmaticoutsourcing.com/2008/08/23/why-i-am-not-ready-to-outsource-to-china/</link>
		<comments>http://pragmaticoutsourcing.com/2008/08/23/why-i-am-not-ready-to-outsource-to-china/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Aug 2008 18:46:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Krym</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I love travel and visit new places, even if that’s on a business trip. Needless to say that living “5 to 7” lifestyle (by 5 am Monday you are on a plane to the client and ~7 pm on Friday are back on your way home) grows old quickly, but my engineering leadership role delivers [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pragmaticoutsourcing.com&#038;blog=4587662&#038;post=38&#038;subd=nkrym&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Offshore productivity: developers</title>
		<link>http://pragmaticoutsourcing.com/2008/08/22/offshore-productivity-developers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2008 23:56:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Krym</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why is offshore developer’s productivity so much lower than one from your local employees? You would expect that for positions that require high communication overhead or for those tightly linked to difficult to acquire domain expertise, but why developer? Java, C#, C/C++ know no borders and far more international than Esperanto ever aspired to be. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pragmaticoutsourcing.com&#038;blog=4587662&#038;post=18&#038;subd=nkrym&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Outsourcing Myths: cost advantage</title>
		<link>http://pragmaticoutsourcing.com/2008/08/22/outsourcing-myths-cost-advantage/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:27:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Krym</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On a surface that seems obvious: even with dollar fall, rising cost of living in India, China and especially eastern Europe the hourly rates continue to be much lower than those you have to pay in the states. For example, a mid level java developer would roughly cost you: SF Bay Area, full time $60/hr [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pragmaticoutsourcing.com&#038;blog=4587662&#038;post=13&#038;subd=nkrym&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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