Return to Archive Runtime - The Software Outsourcing Newsletter for Executives and Investors from Accelerance and Steve Mezak In this issue: Have you put up borders or boundaries that are limiting your professional and personal growth? What if you could easily expand your borders and take advantage of global software development resources? Where Are Your Borders? What borders do you have? Are there artificial borders that limit your personal and business relationships? I just got back from a short trip to Worcester, Massachusetts to look at colleges with my sons. One of my sons asked a professor about the distance to interesting places nearby. "How far is it to the ocean?" Charlie asked. "To someone from Massachusetts it seems far, but since you’re from California, it’s not far at all", said the professor. What he meant was that in some areas of the country (think Texas) distance does not seem as far as in other parts of the country. "A piece down the road" in Texas can be hundreds of miles away It is easy to have artificial borders about outsourcing your software development. For example, a new client here in California complained he was getting marginal results outsourcing to an American firm in New York City. "I wish you had programmers here in Half Moon Bay we could hire", he sighed. "I am tired of flying to New York to explain what our software should do." I immediately thought, wait until you try flying to India! There were two borders in the way here. First, the New York vendor put a border around their business. They work mainly with local New York clients and have not developed the methods required to collaborate effectively over a long distance using the Internet. This border keeps the vendor from working with more clients in other parts of the country and the world. It’s not necessarily a bad thing as long as they are satisfied serving just their local client base. Second, the California client put a border around their outsourcing. Because of their experience with the New York vendor, the client felt that communicating with any outsourcing vendor on the Internet was like driving from Boston to Worcester – something you don’t want to do too often. Outsourcing to this client meant a difficult, long-distance relationship. But I was able to show the client that this was a self-imposed border. What did they do? They changed their minds. With a deadline looming, they realized they needed as much programming help as they could get. They quickly selected two Accelerance teams that are presently creating software modules for the upcoming release. With a notable indifference to borders, they are using one team in India and the other in Costa Rica. In return they will be rewarded with quality software and a good chance of making their deadline. How about you? Do you want to get started with software outsourcing but are afraid of the risks and the startup costs? Don’t want to spend big bucks on expensive consults just to get started? Well if you're actually ready for breakthroughs in your software development and your business, the likes of which you've never seen before, I invite you to check something out. It's a new service I've been working on intensively for the past month. It's called Outsourcing Jumpstart. And it will expand your borders when it comes to software outsourcing... forever. If you've got contacts in multiple countries, already worked with lots of offshore vendors and are getting quality results back from your software outsourcing, then this new service is not for you. But if you have an inkling that offshore outsourcing could take your software development and business to a much higher level of accomplishment and at a lower cost, I invite you to check out the Outsourcing Jumpstart service and take sneak peek at what it contains. All the details are at this link: http://www.Accelerance.com/osjs.htm *** The Runtime Bottom Line: Overcome your perceptions of borders and eliminate the mental blocks that keep you from participating in the global economy. Try the new Outsourcing Jumpstart service to reduce the cost and risk of using global software development resources. Until next time, Steve Mezak Accelerance, Inc. Risk-Free Outsourcing www.Accelerance.com 213 Garcia Avenue Half Moon Bay, CA 94019 1-650-712-8990 Contact me by email (c) 2006 Accelerance, Inc. All rights reserved. You are free to use material from the "Runtime" eZine in whole or in part, as long as you include complete attribution, including live web site link. Please also notify me where the material will appear. The attribution should read: "By Steve Mezak, CEO of Accelerance, Inc. Please visit the Accelerance web site at http://www.Accelerance.com for more information and resources on outsourcing and creating great software products."