I’ve held software development leadership positions for over 20 years throughout my career. In that time, I’ve established outsourced relationships many times. All of them were inspired by our need to get more done. In some cases, we had the funding and it was part of our growth strategy. In other cases, it was part […]

I happened upon a website by a young man in Germany. It seems he’s been doing agile for quite awhile and delivering value mostly from outsourced teams. His name is Alexey Krivitsky and the website is www.scrumshoring.com. What’s interesting is that he’s taken a page out of the Agile Manifesto and come up with a […]

Introduction Velocity Partners clearly provides experienced nearshore teams who are steeped in agile experience. We don’t just talk about agile or pretend to be agile, it’s in our culture and DNA. That being said, we often get asked about team structures when we’re engaging new clients. What are our ‘models’ for engagement? What does a […]

I’ve had more than my share of outsourcing challenges. Time zones, culture conflict, communication issues, lack of creative problem solving, poor teamwork, lack of domain experience, etc. Typically there are solid business reasons for going offshore, budget being a primary consideration, but if you don’t get the results, then what has the cost savings done for you?

I remember sitting in a room with the senior IT development team of a very large, multinational financial corporation. They had literally spent billions of euros on IT outsourcing the previous year. The question one of the senior directors asked was for 20xx:

How many compelling, innovative, and memorable projects were delivered

by our offshore IT teams?

On the surface it was a simple question. And the annual portfolio in this case contained a hundred or so major projects. What do you think the answer was?

It was none. There was not a single project that delighted the customer. That was memorable in how it solved basic customer needs or challenges; or in how it was delivered and deployed. Sure some of the projects were “on schedule” and/or “within costs” and/or “within scope” from a triple constraint perspective, but they weren’t memorable or noteworthy.

I’ve been sharing about agile methods for over ten years at conferences and workshops. One of the top three questions I always receive from attendees is: Does agile work with distributed teams? And sometimes the question is phrased another way: That notion of co-located teams is nice in theory Bob, but in the real life, […]

Velocity Partners has recently begun work with Appature, Bid2Win and 2book. We welcome Getty Images back to Latin America for a second two-week onsite visit. Velocity Partners has recently built a seventh team for PeopleMatter, a client since April 2011. Six Velocity Partners’ team members from Latin America are spending time onsite at client offices […]

Company’s fifth Latin American development center slated to open in early 2013  BELLEVUE, Wash. (July 18, 2012) – Velocity Partners, an experienced, nearshore software development company that delivers results through a distributed, Agile model, announces plans to open a fifth Latin America development center in Colombia early next year. The new center, complete with a state-of-the-art technology, […]

At the recent Nearshore Nexus Conference, speakers focused on how Latin America and the Caribbean are “no longer in the shadow of India or China” when it comes to being  outsourcing destinations. Alvaro Uribe, former president of Columbia, highlighted positive social, political and business developments in the region, including a growing middle class, natural resources, the move away […]

Beauty and luxury abound in Uruguay. Get ready to go on an insider’s tour of South America’s best-kept secret with world-traveler Paolo Singer. From European-style restaurants to a nascent art scene, everything you need to know to plan the perfect trip you’ll find packed and waiting for you here. Our newest development center is in Montevideo, […]

Uruguay, while largely unknown, is actually full of surprises.  As this writer observes, there is everything from ”chic, cosmopolitan towns and modernist beach hotels to hippie hangouts and spectacular deserted beaches.” Take a virtual tour with this recount of one lucky person’s visit to this beautiful part of the world. Velocity Partners opened our Uruguay development center in late 2011. […]