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Custom Software Development Contract Template Checklist
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Custom Software Development Contract Template Checklist

As a leader commissioning software development, you have several interactions with vendors providing services. Building trust between you and the vendor is essential to successful collaboration. How do you build trust, while preserving your rights and the vendor's obligations? To answer this, we must first define a software development contract and its essential terms and conditions. The custom software development contract is a legally binding document that establishes the terms and conditions of the relationship between the customer and the contractor.

What is Data Maturity & How to Climb the Data Maturity Scale?
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What is Data Maturity & How to Climb the Data Maturity Scale?

Data is one of the most valuable assets that a company can have today. Harnessing the full potential data offers can offer a wealth of benefits. You’d be surprised how many companies fall down on making the most out of data, so read on to find out how you can jump ahead of the pack in that respect. One of the best ways to do this is to understand data maturity and put yourself on the right path to climb the data maturity scale. But which data maturity models should you choose to be able to do that?

How to Protect Intellectual Property when Outsourcing?
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How to Protect Intellectual Property when Outsourcing?

In recent years, firms that want to save time, be more flexible, save money, and increase productivity have turned to outsourcing. About 43 percent of companies in the United States outsource programming jobs. Outsourcing permits these firms to focus on what they do best while contracting the services of other firms. However, it is fraught with risks. Threats to the security of their intellectual property rights are among them.

How To Manage Offshore Software Development?
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How To Manage Offshore Software Development?

Going remote requires robust online communication, effective file storage, and a viable collaboration plan. An efficient offshore software development requires easy and quick online communication; an accessible, shared location for file storage; and a workable system for easy collaboration with remote teams. In this guide, we'd be looking at the challenges that come with managing an offshore team. After which, we'd outline tips to help manage these challenges.

Software Development Outsourcing Models — Which Is Best?
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Software Development Outsourcing Models — Which Is Best?

Software development outsourcing is becoming more and more popular and prevalent for tech savvy companies. Before you adopt this model you need to know different models of outsourcing, their use cases, benefits, and how to be successful with it. In this article, we present different outsourcing models and their impact on your business.

Embedded Analytics: Amazon QuickSight vs Tableau
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Embedded Analytics: Amazon QuickSight vs Tableau

Business generates a high volume of structured and unstructured data. This could be sales and marketing data, IoT data streams, and more. End-users find it challenging to derive meaning from these vast data sets. Traditional Business Intelligence tools approaches don’t always work for the users. In this article we will introduce to you the concept of embedded analytics and two top tools you can use to implement embedded analytics in your business application or SaaS product.

Hire Skillful Polish Programmers - Poland Team Augmentation
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Hire Skillful Polish Programmers - Poland Team Augmentation

Poland Team Augmentation enables IT companies to minimize operational costs while maximizing productivity and efficiency. Most of companies choose Central and Eastern Europe to hire Polish programmers. Poland has one of the largest IT talent pools in the world and serves as a research and development hub for commercial giants such as Google and Microsoft. However, is it the best place in which to outsource software development and hire IT professionals?

Software Development Scope of Work [Template, Tips & Tools]
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Software Development Scope of Work [Template, Tips & Tools]

Starting a new IT project comes with a lot of challenges. According to the Project Management Institute, 45% IT projects end up over budget and deliver 56% less value than expected. One of the best ways to avoid these project pitfalls is to create a detailed scope of work (SOW) for your software development project. In this article, we'll give you a software development SOW template you can use for your next project.

Top 15 Golang Interview Questions
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Top 15 Golang Interview Questions

Most code-sharing applications that companies use these days for interviews support Golang. Despite different opinions about Go’s characteristics and feasibility of its use, this programming language already gained attention from world-known enterprises. Among them include such giants as Google, Uber and many more. It’s only a few examples of success using Go. Go is already one of the most in-demand languages, and interest will only increase. Due to its simplicity and scalability, a lot of companies consider using it.

Software Development KPIs — Practical Metrics for Teams
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Software Development KPIs — Practical Metrics for Teams

Accelerate’s ideas are intriguing because measuring the output of a software engineering organization is extremely difficult. Anyone who has given this issue serious thought has most likely encountered the ‘measuring the unmeasurable’ objection. In this article, I am going to focus on measuring productivity of software development teams, how to effectively measure software performance and giving examples of they are implemented.