February 19, 2007
Corporate Security: Risk and Cost Tolerance in India
"Late last month, Indian police acting on an intelligence lead arrested a suspected Kashmiri militant near Jalahalli, a village just north of Bangalore. Authorities confiscated an assault rifle and 300 rounds of ammunition from the suspect, 34-year-old Bilal Ahmed Kota, as well as -- significantly -- a satellite phone, a cell phone, multiple cell phone SIM cards and a map of Bangalore. Several locations reportedly had been marked out on that map -- including the airport, the offices of Wipro Technologies Ltd. and the complex operated by Infosys Technologies, the global information technology (IT) services provider."
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Richard Kuper
The Kuper Report
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Richard Kuper
The Kuper Report
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Labels: cost, India, Infosys, IT, offshore, outsourcing, risk, security, technology, Wipro
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February 14, 2007
"Offshore-developed software projects have 2.8X as many bugs as average software projects"
Richard Kuper
The Kuper Report
http://TheKuperReport.com
At the NYC SPIN meeting last evening, Michael Mah of QSM Associates and the Cutter Consortium gave a very interesting presentation about extreme programming and productivity measurement. As he was wrapping up he provided some statistics regarding offshore outsourced projects.
An excellent write-up of this event has been published by Ed Yourdon, and I will not even try to improve on the work of such a distinguished writer ("Death March," "Byte Wars," the recent "Outsourcing: Competing in the Global Productivity Race," etc.). So instead I will direct you to his blog entry here:
"Offshore-developed software projects have 2.8X as many bugs as average software projects"
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R.L. Kuper, Inc. - Management Consulting
The Kuper Report
http://TheKuperReport.com
At the NYC SPIN meeting last evening, Michael Mah of QSM Associates and the Cutter Consortium gave a very interesting presentation about extreme programming and productivity measurement. As he was wrapping up he provided some statistics regarding offshore outsourced projects.
An excellent write-up of this event has been published by Ed Yourdon, and I will not even try to improve on the work of such a distinguished writer ("Death March," "Byte Wars," the recent "Outsourcing: Competing in the Global Productivity Race," etc.). So instead I will direct you to his blog entry here:
"Offshore-developed software projects have 2.8X as many bugs as average software projects"
Labels: ed yourdon, extreme programming, kuper report, michael mah, offshore, outsourcing, richard kuper, technology, XP
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