Lessons Learned in Nearshore Outsourcing

Webinar: Agile Development from Argentina: Lessons Learned in Nearshore Outsourcing

Join us for a Webinar!

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

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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