Outsourcing

Outsourcing Update: Part 2

Wednesday, January 30th, 2008

First time here? If you would like to be notified the next time I write something, sign up for email alerts or subscribe to the RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!In a previous post I described my first attempt at outsourcing. I was diligently trying to ship some software programming work overseas. Please don’t tell […]

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All The Things I Do

Tuesday, January 15th, 2008

One idea that has really resonated with me lately is that we really should work to live, yet often we end up living to work. Unfulfilling work can consume so much of our time, leaving tired evenings and perhaps a few hours on the weekends to pursue our dreams - if we even have any […]

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Outsourcing Update

Thursday, January 10th, 2008

In a previous post, I had outlined a strategy where I had identified a candidate to whom I might outsource some programming work.  This strategy is based on the use of popular programmer forums. As I had mentioned, the benefit of this approach is being able to understand a programmer’s skills up front as well […]

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First Attempt At Outsourcing

Saturday, January 5th, 2008

One exercise I am working on right now is listing all of the things I do, both professionally and personally, and looking for activities that take up a lot of my time and only add incremental value. Perhaps some of these things are simply not worth doing or can easily be done by someone else. […]

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