Technical Best Practices Building on the discussion of distributed agile-scrum teams in software development we started in the first post in this series, in this post we will discuss some of the principle technical best practices our team at Scio has found to be...
Practices required for distributed teams: Basically Agile (and Scrum!) The use of the agile methodology in combination with the Scrum framework is a widely accepted industry standard for software development throughout the world. Together the methodologies provide an...
If you are thinking we’ve been discussing Outsourced Product Development (OPD) a lot recently, you would be quite correct. Why? The answers are simple: It is an important part of what we do at Scio. We have a lot of experiences to share. It is mentioned often by...
In today’s economy, it is more practical to outsource some of the more highly-technical work such as software development. The major advantage of this practice is that the company can send the work to a country where labor cost is more affordable (i.e. emerging...
Outsourced Product Development (OPD) is the business practice of using outside providers to develop products and services at one or several stages of product development from ideation all the way through to implementation. In an increasingly competitive, global...
The adoption of the agile methodology in software development grew in relatively rapid fashion. I remember not so long ago a lot of people in the IT world had heard about agile, but not considered it for their own teams. Today, most of the development groups I talk to...
