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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&blog=4587662&post=380&subd=nkrym&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pros and Cons of Outsourcing to India</title>
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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&blog=4587662&post=303&subd=nkrym&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pros and Cons of Outsourcing QA</title>
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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&blog=4587662&post=285&subd=nkrym&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Offshore Destinations: Russia</title>
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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&blog=4587662&post=275&subd=nkrym&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Top 10 Technology Tasks to Outsource</title>
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		<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&blog=4587662&post=150&subd=nkrym&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Vendor Selection in China</title>
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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&blog=4587662&post=136&subd=nkrym&ref=&feed=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&blog=4587662&post=122&subd=nkrym&ref=&feed=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&blog=4587662&post=92&subd=nkrym&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>My reasons to outsource</title>
		<link>http://pragmaticoutsourcing.com/2008/08/26/my-reasons-to-outsource/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 00:12:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Krym</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I mentioned already the top reasons for offshore outsourcing typical for many organizations; let me list some of my own: Diversity. Diversity in terms of bringing individual contributor with different background into the team often means a tremendous increase in productivity. A healthy portion of resources with different education, practical background, and way of operating [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pragmaticoutsourcing.com&blog=4587662&post=42&subd=nkrym&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Top reasons for outsourcing</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2008 20:55:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Krym</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whenever I have to introduce using offshore to executives I start with a slide with has title “Good reasons for going offshore”. The slide is otherwise empty. With all the headache it will cause why would I go offshore if I do not absolutely have to? I have been using offshore vendors since ‘92 and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pragmaticoutsourcing.com&blog=4587662&post=9&subd=nkrym&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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