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To get to the bottom of the question about how to start offshore development let’s start from the very beginning and clarify what offshore programming is. Offshore software development is the practice of hiring an external company or team to build software outside of the customer’s country. Hiring a team of software developers for your project is a challenging task, especially for businesses from the United States or Western Europe.

Setting up a project with a remote team requires a different set of tools that would allow assigning tasks, sharing files, setting up deadlines, tracking the progress, and organizing data in CRM, ideally all within one platform.

From a customer persona, what do you expect from a service? Whether it is the email you get from the eCommerce platform you shop on regularly or gift hampers you receive from a company for being their loyal customer, one thing is always expected. It’s personalization.

When Mattermost first started, it didn’t make sense for us to have an office; it was just myself and one other person. They were writing code the whole time, and I was on the phone the whole time, and being in the office we ended up interrupting each other. So eventually we started working from our homes and only got together when we needed to catch up.

Hiring a contractor may be easier and faster than in-house hiring, but the onboarding process for a contractor should be as meticulous as for a new employee. Contractors may require as long as one month to become fully engaged because they need to get to know the team and learn the product code.

Celebrated fondly as the land of poets and known widely for its beautiful art galleries, fantastic wine, graffiti, and street art, as well as the sumptuous local cuisine, Chile today is also a fine example of a rapidly growing modernized nation with several thriving industries, one of which is software development. As unexpected as this might sound, the country has been investing significantly in skilling and encouraging young developers, and several factors such as improvement in infrastructure, similar time zones with the US, affordable cost of hiring, etc., prove that it is smart to hire software developers from Chile.

The spark of automation in recent years, backed by economic growth and innovation, significantly impacted the job market and caused, paradoxically, both job loss and talent shortage. Those businesses in need of tech talent faced the biggest challenge to growing fast and efficiently in the industry, considering their lack of software engineers and high competition on the market.

Tristan: Today I’m interviewing Mariia Tintul, who is Business Development Director for Lenal EU, which is a medium-sized software development firm with offices in Tallinn & Kyiv.

Effective collaboration in remote teams requires rethinking the processes and interaction between team members. Traditional in-person work together activities such as brainstorming sessions and meetings using whiteboards, sticky notes, are not available. This is where online software tools come in – they make it easier and faster for everyone on the team to collaborate from their own locations.

Hubstaff is productivity software that streamlines the process of managing remote teams. The app offers time tracking, activity monitoring, online timesheets, payroll, and invoicing capabilities that save time on admin work and get things done efficiently. It integrates with several other apps and runs on macOS, Windows, Linux, iOS, and Android.

The IT outsourcing industry is humungous, and one of the places that have seen significant growth in this niche is Peru. An example that proves how fast the industry is growing is that the only in 2021, the ICT market was valued at $4.5 billion. It is also predicted to grow in 8.8% by 2026 and worth around $7.02 billion. It is only one metric showing how huge the software development industry is in Peru.

According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the number of job openings in the information industry, with 207,000 jobs reported in February 2022, up from 111,000 for the same month last year.

In this article, we compare and contrast two similar yet decidedly different approaches to hiring tech talent: freelancers and dedicated engineers. The former refers to independent contractors, often hired through popular online talent platforms, while the latter involves hiring full-time specialists employed by established and pre-vetted outsourcing software companies.

2024 is the year of artificial intelligence, and news about it is spreading like wildfire. Microsoft is adding an AI-assisted feature to Windows 11, a significant AI push in the company’s most visible and hard-to-ignore product. Shares of Nvidia, a company that produces graphics processing units (GPUs) used for AI tasks, soared after the tech giant beat profit expectations. Finally, AI tools such as GitHub Copilot, Tabnine, and ChatGPT have already become integral to software development.

In the modern digital world, designing a website may seem a routine every skilled developer is capable of. It may sound true, especially knowing that 175 new sites are created every minute. A website remains an ever-lasting marketing tool that generates web traffic and converts it into leads and, consequently, customers. However, many websites fail to provide the expected conversion rate. Why does it happen, and how to improve it?

When people think of Serbia, a few things that come to mind are Novak Djoković, the famous tennis player, the Slava celebration, and exotic foods. But software development? Although Serbia is a lesser-known country in the European Union, it is most definitely a rising star in the IT outsourcing business. A variety of factors makes Serbia a great option, particularly for UK companies that are looking for nearshoring software development, such as the increasing number of skilled and well-educated professionals, minimal time zone difference, the ability of Serbian developers to speak fluent English, and more.

The telecommunication industry is what makes the global exchange of information possible in the 21st century. The most prominent businesses in this sector include cable, satellite companies, wireless operators, and internet service providers. It is with the help of these companies that data can be received and sent anywhere in video, audio, voice, or word format. Most of the other relevant sectors like e-commerce, blockchain, virtual call centers, and more rely on the development of telecom software for providing connectivity.