Who's On First: How to Mitigate Challenges in Outsourcing Projects

If your project involves external resources in any capacity, then you are dealing with one or more outsourcing arrangements. This article gives some strategies for mitigating common obstacles for managing outsourced projects.

Insourcing vs. Outsourcing

Sometimes it's a knock-down, drag-out brawl between proponents of insourcing and outsourcing. When the final bell rings, who will still be standing?

Topic Teasers Vol. 3: Agile Nearshoring

Question: My organization outsources to save money, but it creates communication issues and other problems for my agile team. Can offshoring (outsourcing) work effectively for non-collocated agile groups?

Outsourcing IT Development: Monitoring the Six Dimensions

Making outsourcing decisions work is one of the major challenges facing outsourcing managers. In order to monitor the progress and success of an outsourcing relationship, managers need a higher level of visibility of the work performed by the outsourced teams. This paper discusses the six dimensions needed to measure, monitor, and report, which can greatly improve the visibility and success of outsourcing projects.

There is no IT Outsourcing without a Transition: An Introduction to ITO Transitions

An ITO transition is the complex first phase of the IT outsourcing contract that has strategic importance for the success of the contract. This paper provides an understanding of the transition phase along with the specific attributes that make an ITO transition different from many IT projects; and the key success factors to successfully achieving an ITO transition implementation.

Offshore Analysis

A recently published study says that the IT outsourcing landscape is changing in surprising ways.

Outsourcing: Balancing the Trade-Offs

All too often, outsourcing is equated to offshore outsourcing. But it spans a much broader spectrum and includes any work or service performed by third parties for a company. So let’s look at outsourcing from both sides of the aisle, and explore the trade-offs. In doing so, a framework will be developed that you might find useful in evaluating the extent to which outsourcing is appropriate for your IT organization.

What are some best practices for project managers in Outsourcing?

What are the challenges faced on an Outsourcing project?

What tools can assist me in my Outsourcing project?