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| Saturday, 08 December 2007 09:13 |
 Strategic or mission-critical application development requires developers to have more than just technical programming skills. They must also be fluent in the business context of the applications they develop, and have a working knowledge of the technical environment of the business. This makes global sourcing that much more difficult: whereas technical skills can be acquired in the classroom or from prior experience, complex business problems and esoteric technical environments are typically business-specific. As a result, they must be learned and mastered in a specific environment, and pose a challenge to global sourcing. The collaborative aspects of Agile practices - both among developers and with business partners - offer a solution to this problem. By effectively incubating high performing, globally sourced teams, Agile practices allow an organization to source IT application development not only for cost reduction, but for strategic solution development.Strategic or mission-critical application development requires developers to have more than just technical programming skills. They must also be fluent in the business context of the applications they develop, and have a working knowledge of the technical environment of the business. This makes global sourcing that much more difficult: whereas technical skills can be acquired in the classroom or from prior experience, complex business problems and esoteric technical environments are typically business-specific. As a result, they must be learned and mastered in a specific environment, and pose a challenge to global sourcing. The collaborative aspects of Agile practices - both among developers and with business partners - offer a solution to this problem. By effectively incubating high performing, globally sourced teams, Agile practices allow an organization to source IT application development not only for cost reduction, but for strategic solution development.Read more >>
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