Webinar: Outsourcing in Paradise – Real Life Lessons from Nearshore Software Development in Costa Rica

Wednesday, September 8th, 2010 Steve Mezak

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Nearshore Software Outsourcing Webinar

Webinar recorded with a live audience on Wednesday, September 8, 2010

TIP: After you hit the PLAY arrow, you’ll be able to toggle the Full Screen switch
in the bottom right corner of the player. (It looks like an X.)
Then you can easily use the Table of Contents to navigate through the presentation.

In this 60-minute webinar, you’ll hear about “nearshore” IT outsourcing from both sides of the engagement: The development manager who needed to expand the capabilities of his Silicon Valley team, and the IT shop director in Costa Rica who won their business.

Download the Outsourcing in Paradise webinar handout describing the main points of nearshore outsourcing and for note taking.

Download the webinar transcript & read about Outsourcing in Paradise for nearshore software development in Costa Rica.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND: This webinar is for you if you have an understaffed software development team, you’re facing insurmountable deadlines, you can’t find local talent with the right technical skills, you’re looking for a way to reduce IT costs… but you’d rather not cross twelve time zones to solve any of those dilemmas.

Jim Tooley Senior Director of Software Development

Jim Tooley will tell you about: His team’s goals for outsourcing – and their constraints Their quick 4-phase approach for identifying candidate countries and IT vendors How they narrowed the search to a single firm Non-negotiable expectations and requirements of the winning IT vendor A few surprises, both good and bad The “Efficacy Factor” they used to quantify the software outsourcing results

Tomás Rodríguez COO of Isthmus

Tomás Rodríguez will tell you about: How Isthmus collaborates with U.S. clients, with or without detailed specs Six reasons why Costa Rica is well positioned for U.S. outsourcing How Isthmus uses Agile development practices Their staffing strategies and technical capabilities for supporting U.S. clients

Steve Mezak CEO of Accelerance

Moderator Steve Mezak included plenty of time for live Q&A immediately after the presentation. If you’re thinking about outsourcing to a nearshore IT partner, don’t miss the chance to replay the entire broadcast! Recorded with a live audience on September 8, 2010

About the Speakers:

Jim Tooley is a director of software engineering at a large Silicon Valley software company creating business software used on the Internet.  Jim has been involved in developing software for the past 20 years ranging from hands-on development of writing code and delivery projects to managing distributed teams working on commercial enterprise software.   Recently he changed an engineering team from building classic enterprise software into a building SaaS software.  He has created off-shore teams in India, and has done near-shoring.

Tomás Rodríguez is COO at Isthmus IT in San Jose, Costa Rica. Tomás graduated in MBA from Universidad Inetramericana (currently Uiversidad Latina), majoring in Industrial Engineering from ITCR. Tomás has 3 years experience working in Manufacturing companies (Eaton Cuttler Hammer and Intel) and 4 years experience in Technology related companies (Trax Technologies and Isthmus). Tomás started at Isthmus as a Project Manager on 2007 and is currently COO since 2009.

Steve Mezak is author of Software without Borders and CEO of Accelerance, Inc., a global software development firm with over 20 software development partners in a dozen countries. As a technical entrepreneur and veteran of six Silicon Valley startups, Steve mastered global software development in a variety of management and technical roles, including CTO and CEO with more than 25 years of software development experience. Steve attended UC Berkeley, the City University in London, and holds a BS Degree in Computer Science from Worcester Polytechnic Institute. He continues to serve as an adviser to WPI’s Electrical and Computer Engineering Department.  Steve is co-chair of the SDForum Software Architecture and Modeling SIG and member of the IEEE Professional Activities Board IT Committee.