Date: Wednesday, July 7, 2010
Time: 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM EDT

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Space is limited. The first 20 persons registered in the event will receive the book “Software without Borders” by Steve Mezak via mail, all participants will receive an abbreviated e-book version with a discount to purchase it.

If you are interested in learning best outsourcing practices from the leaders of this field, we invite you to attend our webinar: Agile Development from Argentina: Lessons Learned in Nearshore Outsourcing. We will be covering the advantages of using Agile Methodologies in the context of nearshore outsourcing as well as sharing the experience of experts in how to improve your chances of success.

Major Topics:

• How to apply agile methodologies in outsourcing.
• Typical challenges of outsourcing and how to overcome them.
• Pros and cons of Latin America in general and Argentina in particular for software outsourcing.
• How to assess the maturity of potential and current vendors.
• Janeiro Digital’s personal account comparing outsourcing in Bangladesh, China and Argentina.

Speakers:

Steve Mezak is author of Software without Borders and CEO of Accelerance, Inc., a global software development firm with over 20 software development partners in a dozen countries. As a technical entrepreneur and veteran of six Silicon Valley startups, Steve mastered global software development in a variety of management and technical roles, including CTO and CEO with more than 25 years of software development experience. Steve attended UC Berkeley, the City University in London, and holds a BS Degree in Computer Science from Worcester Polytechnic Institute. He continues to serve as an adviser to WPI’s Electrical and Computer Engineering Department. Steve is co-chair of the SDForum Software Architecture and Modeling SIG and member of the IEEE Professional Activities Board IT Committee.

Jonathan Bingham is CEO of Janeiro Digital, a software development firm headquartered in Boston that works with emerging innovation-driven companies and digital marketing services agencies throughout the U.S. Whether creating a new software-based product, a social networking application or a back-end business system, Janeiro Digital provides its clients CTO-level strategic advice, software architecture and design counsel, and project management, and then partners with Belatrix to do the actual software engineering. Jonathan is a serial entrepreneur, having co-founded Intrusic (an enterprise security vendor) and Surrge (an online music service) prior to Janeiro Digital. Previously he was a security technology industry analyst at Forrester Research.

Alex Robbio (Moderator) is the Vice President of Business Development at Belatrix Software Factory. Alex is a Certified Scrum Master and has extensive experience in the software industry including roles as Developer, Architect and Project Manager for important software companies.

After registering you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the Webinar.

System Requirements:

PC-based attendees: Windows® 7, Vista, XP, 2003 Server or 2000
Macintosh®-based attendees: Mac OS® X 10.4.11 (Tiger®) or newer

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Read the full article: Tips for Picking a Software Development Partner From a Time Zone Focused CEO

Here’s a quick snippet:

Surely you’ve heard someone say that communication is the key to a successful outsourcing relationship. You’ve probably heard it so many times that your cliche alert pops up anytime someone utters the phrase.

But we’re hearing from more and more software-building companies that the best projects are those where there isn’t just good communication but where everyone is working in synch: not just on the same clock but on the same wavelength.

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The net result was an interesting article that provides great insight into Janeiro Digital’s business model and innate value. Here’s a link to the full article, along with a snippet to give you a taste of what you’re getting yourself into:

Read the Full Article: Janeiro Digital Speedramps Software Development for SMBs

For companies too small or new to have a software development team in place, Janeiro Digital supercharges the process and shortens the cycle with project management and teams already used to working together. Managed services, SaaS, clouds and other third-party offerings offer SMBs a growing range of ways to outsource apps, back-room IT, et cetera. But what if what your company wants to do is create new software, e.g., to run the business better, or as a new business? There’s no shortage of excellent, experienced highly-qualified developers out there eager for full-time, contract or temporary project work. (I’ve got too many friends in this situation, and you probably do, too.)

Holler!

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Having been in this world for the last 10 or so years we’ve seen a lot and met some fantastic business people.  Boston is rich with smart people and innovative ideas.  We’ve been fortunate enough to become a sounding board for some of these amazing people as they forge ahead chasing their dreams with nothing but determination, grit, persistence and faith that their idea will revolutionize the way we use the internet in our daily lives.

In the last 4 years, software development has taken a major shift in both process and resource utilization.  The days of 1-year development cycles are over and agile processes are the wave of the future. As for team make up, things have changed.  Stay tuned for some new ways to build and maintain software projects that take advantage of both local expertise and near shore resources to scale project development quickly and get  things out the door!

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