Trigent Insights

Hello and welcome to our series of articles, Trigent Insights.

Every week, we'll cover a topic of general interest to the business world, and also include a few snippets of some of the interesting news at Trigent. We hope this weekly newsletter of brief articles will grow to become an insightful source of information for you. We've archived the older issues of insights here, in case you missed any of them.

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Issue 9: Efficient Requirements Gathering and Documentation

Amidst the debate about how well offshoring works - and how effective it really is - some basic best practices go a long way in making offshoring successful.

One of these practices is churning out effective requirement specifications well and on time. Read More

Issue 8: Managing Product Development budgets

Each month Product Managers, CTOs and CFOs sit together and confront a major challenge - how to integrate the endless list of MRDs (Marketing Requirements Documents) into a product within a defined release cycle and tight budget. Read More

Issue 7: 7 Techniques for Successful Offshoring (Part 5)

In the last few weeks, we discussed 6 Techniques to make Software Offshoring a quick, painless and value-added proposition. This week, we're concluding our 5-part series with Technique 7 (Reward Innovation) and a conclusion to wrap up this series. Read More

Issue 6: 7 Techniques for Successful Offshoring (Part 4)

In the last few weeks, we discussed 4 Techniques to make Software Offshoring a quick, painless and value-added proposition. This week, we're continuing our 5-part series with Techniques 5 (Test Continuously) & 6 (Seperate the development and support teams). Read More

Issue 5: 7 Techniques for Successful Offshoring (Part 3)

Last week we discussed the first 2 Techniques to make Software Offshoring a quick, painless and value-added proposition.This week, we're continuing our 5-part series with Techniques 3 (Develop automated build and regression tests) & 4 (Encourage the Developers to travel) Read More

Issue 4: 7 Techniques for Successful Offshoring (Part 2)

This week, we're continuing our 5-part series on Techniques to make Software Offshoring a quick, painless and value-added proposition. - "Ensure developers understand business requirements" and "Get to an agreement on definition of "Code Quality" Read More

Issue 3: 7 Techniques to Successful Offshoring and Outsourced Product Development (Part 1)

This series of articles focuses on how to turn the risk of "Inadequate quality and missing market deadlines" into a successful opportunity. This is not a 30,000 feet view of outsourcing, but a peek at winning ground level techniques. Read More

Issue 2: Achieving 24 x 7 product support with offshore technical support

Amongst the various challenges in building and taking a product through its lifecycle, technical support for the product is one of the most vital mechanisms that determine the product′s success. Read More

Issue 1: Agile Development from Offshore?

"Agile Development" and "internationally distributed teams" are two of the hottest recent trends in the software development community. While Agile methods have been used for a few years, they are being adopted more frequently by software developers in response to the need for rapid, iterative requirement changes and short delivery cycles for business value in today's "Show-me!" environment. Read More