October 13th, 2008
I’m giving a keynote address at the New Jersey Software Process Symposium on October 14th … somewhere in the wilderness of New Jersey. (All I know is that I’ve checked in at the New Brunswick Hyatt Regency hotel on the evening of the 13th, in the midst of pitch-black darkness all around, and I’ve got [...]
December 17th, 2007
A couple weeks ago, I described (here and here) my initial attempts to establish a relationship with an Indian outsourcing company, in the hope that I could offload some of the relatively mundane technical/administrative things that a freelance knowledge worker like me would either have to do himself, or subcontract to a local worker at [...]
December 7th, 2007
A couple days ago, I described my initial foray into the world small-scale offshore outsourcing — for the business and personal tasks carried out by an individual, i.e., me. At the time, I said I had contacted two Indian firms, and neither had responded to me. Well, both of them have now contacted me, and [...]
December 3rd, 2007
I’m not the first one to be thinking about outsourcing some of my business tasks and personal chores, and my situation is by no means unique. But it occurred to me that if I kept track of my experiences, it might provide some helpful advice to anyone else thinking of doing the same thing. It [...]
October 14th, 2007
I received an email today, out of the blue, from a consultant named Lambert O’Neill. I don’t know Mr. O’Neill, but based on the subject line of his email, I was expecting a message about death-march projects. But here’s what his message said (this is all verbatim; I haven’t even corrected a few innocent typos [...]
February 13th, 2007
Don’t shoot the messenger, okay? I didn’t generate these sobering statistics myself, and while there’s an underlying rationale that makes sense to me, I haven’t had a chance to personally validate them. If you want more details, you should contact Michael Mah himself; I’ll provide more details on who he is, and where he got [...]
February 13th, 2007
I plan on attending tonight’s monthly meeting of the New York City Software Process Improvement Network (SPIN) tonight, where Michael Mah will be speaking on “Extreme Programming (XP) and Productivity Measurement.” For details and directions, see the NYC SPIN website here. Michael is a great speaker, and the topic is an interesting one; among other [...]
