Outsourced Product Development

“To be or not be: that is the question”, written by William Shakespeare and is one of the most famous quotations in world literature. However with the changing times, question “Captive or Outsourced facility” has become one of the questions that is troubling most of the Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) planning to offshore their product development.

Outsourced Product Development (OPD) is the outsourcing of detailed activities or the entire activities related to the development and maintenance of a product. OPD enables product companies to utilize the product-building know-how and worldwide talent pools on hand with OPD providers.

Outsourcing product development, unlike outsourcing the development of software applications though requires specialized skill set, standards and execution expertise and totally different development mindset.

I work in the outsourced product development services space.The goal of this group is to discuss global product development, trends, advantages, challenges, successes and failures.

Target audience is technology executives, product & engineering managers of software and hardware companies, start ups, OEMs, Web 2.0, SaaS, networking ,HealthCare,Mobile and Wireless, Security, Telecoms, enterprise, e-commerce, ERP,CRM, Business Intelligence, Content & Document Management, HR and Workforce Management, Retails, POS, etc.

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