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While in Bolivia recently visiting one of our software outsourcing partners, I noticed a QA manager who was wearing a T-shirt with the word “Bazinga!” blazed across the front; the word looked familiar, but I couldn’t place it so I asked her if that meant something in Spanish.  Her reply:> CONTINUE

One of the great advantages of my job is getting to meet software outsourcing partners in faraway places all over the world. To be sure, part of these trips is purely nuts-and-bolts stuff: assessing staff, management, facilities, and programming operations, for instance. But where it really gets interesting is learning> CONTINUE

In case you’ve innocently clicked here unaware that you’ve stepped in the middle of a conversation, this is the fifth in a series of posts where I’m discussing the elements necessary for a successful programming culture. (Check out Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 or Part 4) As I’ve stressed> CONTINUE

This is the fourth post in a five-part series (check out Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3) where I’ve been examining what it takes for a software programming or development organization to cultivate the right kind of company culture. As I’ve said previously, creating the proper culture is crucial> CONTINUE

In the last few posts (Part 1 and Part 2) I’ve been talking about the juggling act of creating the kind of culture necessary for a successful programming or development organization. So far we’ve covered innovation and interpersonal factors — today I thought I’d throw another couple of balls into> CONTINUE

As I wrote in Part 1 of this five part series, fostering the right kind of culture is crucial to the success of a programming or software development organization. Unfortunately, this is easier said than done. It’s not like you can simply throw employees into a giant human resources Petri> CONTINUE

When it comes to business success, culture matters. It does in any field, but especially in software development, where so much is riding on the talents of employees and their ability to work together as a team. When you want to foster the culture required for a productive programming or> CONTINUE

Two of the things that I enjoy about life are a good analogy and a good glass of wine (though not necessarily in that order). In a recent visit to one of our software outsourcing partners in Argentina, I found both. Most people view outsourcing as a way to get> CONTINUE

It is a good time to be a programmer, isn’t it? There is a great deal of low-hanging money out there, just waiting to be plucked from those virtual cash trees. Look at all those goodies for sale at your favorite app store! You can find apps that will do> CONTINUE

Vivek Wadhwa examines why the United States is supposedly suffering from a “reverse brain drain,” in his book “The Immigrant Exodus: Why America Is Losing The Global Race To Capture Entrepreneurial Talent.” According to Wadhwa, the problem is that immigrant entrepreneurs are heading back to their native lands, in part> CONTINUE