Monthly Archives: September 2013

Project Metrics: A Practical Approach to Measuring Software Outsourcing Performance

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By William Murphy, CEO, Dextrys

No one would argue that software service teams should regularly review their performance over time in order to compare their effectiveness to other teams and to their own past performance.  Our experience has shown that few teams actually collect and review meaningful information and fewer still use it to effectively make changes.  Most teams fall short by either not collecting the right data, not performing appropriate analysis, not taking effective actions on the findings.
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Android Fragmentation: Beyond devices and OS version challenges.

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By Eric Byron, Director, Client Services

It is tough enough to figure out what devices to test your app on and which versions of the Android OS to support but then you go to publish your app in China and realize that Google Play gets you nowhere and there’s literally dozens of app stores to try to evaluate and most have no English language version. How do you determine how to get your app in the correct app stores for the maximum exposure to you target market? Add to that the security concerns around some of these apps stores and worries that your app with be     replaced with a hacked version or something that doesn’t even resemble the app you intended to distribute.
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