A comment on Offshoring Shows How Valuable Code Is floored me: "Another answer [to the 'what do you value?' question] could be to show cost reduction for the quarter. Its the old short term thinking to make Wall Street happy."

First, I concluded that "cost reduction" is somehow separate from …

See Schrage in CIO magazine on March 15 http://www.cio.com/archive/031506/schrage.html?page=1.

When we outsource of offshore some coding, what are we saying is valuable?

We're saying that the net effect of the installed software has value. We're saying that no existing product does …

Check this out for a new model of software development. Why hire full-time developers when your business is not software development? Why rent contract labor? Why not just buy the custom software?

Note that your own internal QA processes have to be top-shelf to do this. Internal staff can screw …