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metaphors, advices and ideas on offshore software development Alexey Krivitsky

agile coach @ scrumguides

because agile is an adventure

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I am from Ukraine. “Ukraine is a software developing country”.

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outsourcing transfer of work to external contractor

subcontracting customer-contractor relationships

outsourcing transfer of work to external contractor

nearshoring .. to a neighboring country

offshoring .. to another country

subcontracting customer-contractor relationships

outsourcing transfer of work to external contractor

nearshoring .. to a neighboring country

team extension

employees of another company are integrated into onshore

offshoring .. to another country

distributed dev equal level of authority across all teams

subcontracting customer-contractor relationships

outsourcing

team extension offshoring

distributed dev equal level of authority across all teams

subcontracting customer-contractor relationships

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Alexey Krivitsky @alexeykri krivitsky@scrumguides.com outsourcing30.com