Research Completed! Agile and Nearshore - Formula to Successful Software Development

"It's time for software professionals to stop sitting on the fence where agile is concerned.

Forrester Report 2009

Nearshore Blog is extremely pleased to present our new research work - "Agile and Nearshore - Formula to Successful Software Development".

The paper is accessible with this link and represents a great deal of our efforts aimed at giving a broad overview of Agile development methodologies and their practical appliance in commercial software development.

The study analyzes the history of Agile development, discusses the main changes occurred in commercial software sector over last years and presents real-world case-studies and successful implementation of Agile methodologies in conjunction with Nearshore delivery approaches.

The study features successful implementations of Agile for software product companies “Borland” and "OnGuard", large ICT multinationals “British Telecom” and professional ITO service providers “Levi9 Global Sourcing”.

We would like to draw your particular attention to the Levi9 case-study, being a commissioner of this research the company managed to successfully craft these two elements of successful software development into one robust approach! This approach allowed to develop exceptional solutions at a shorter time which in turn helped Levi9 customer to clinch the Award of Most Innovative IT Company 2011 in Netherlands.

Since this work represents first of its kind we'll be very pleased for your support and feedback!

Sincerely Yours - Nearshore Blog Team!

“Agile and Nearshore - The Formula to Successful Software Development”

"It's time for software professionals to stop sitting on the fence where agile is concerned.

Forrester Report 2009

This is the quote from our new research “Agile and Nearshore - The Formula to Successful Software Development”, which is officially available here

We would like to draw a special attention to this work, as the aim of it is to give a broad overview of the Agile development methodologies, their practical appliance and successful combination with nearshore IT service delivery models.

The study analyzes the history of Agile development, discusses the main changes occurred in commercial software development sector over last years and presents a real-world case-studies of successful implementation of Agile methodologies in conjunction with Nearshore delivery approaches.

The study features successful implementations of Agile methodologies for software product companies “Borland”, large ICT multinationals “British Telecom” and professional ITO service providers “Levi9 Global Sourcing”. Especially the last one, as the company successfully crafted these two elements of successful software development into one robust approach!

Want to know more about the formula and real-world case-studies check out our report!

Coming soon......

The Tech Recovery of 2010 Is Underway

As it was predicted by leading research agencies 2-3Q of 2010 continued a strong tech recovery in US and Europe. In its latest IT market outlook Q2 leading industry researcher Forrester indicates the growth of global IT market at the 7.8% mark.

Software and computer equipment awill be the strongest categories, with PCs, peripherals, and storage equipment leading the computer category, and operating system software and applications setting the pace for software.

As a factors for such growth experts associate a better-than-expected performance in communications industry and overall good performance of the economies in US and major European countries. Globally, the tech market measured in US dollars will grow by 7%, with the somewhat weaker outlook for the US tech market offsetting slightly better performance in Europe and strong growth in Latin America, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia/Pacific.

As for forecast for 2011 experts caution with economic indicators. Unstable US currency, Greek debt crisis and fears of one spreading to Portugal, Spain, Italy might influence global economy. Andrew Bartel from Forrester research sees global and US economies will fall between extremes of strong growth or recession, growing weakly but not slipping back into recession.

In general forecast for IT market in 2011 is set on 7.4% mark. Data source - Forrester US And Global IT Market Outlook Q3.