Anurag Jain's Blog
Wednesday, July 21, 2004

Random thoughts on Next Practices in IT

1) IT Management: Project Management practices
What will it be? Going chronologically, following is how s/w development at large scale has evolved -
- Centalized Collaborative Development - Popularized by Richard Stallman (Free Software).
- Decentalized Collaborative Development - Popularized by Linus Torvalds (Linux).
- Global Delivery Model (Highly coordinated collaborative Development) - Popularized by Infosys / Wipro etc.

Are the current software development/project management models good for foreseeable future? Will they be able to keep delivering? What could be the Next Practices in the area of s/w development/project management? Are there any new models in sight?

2) IT Business:From Outside Outsourcing to Inside Outsourcing: Addressing Domestic IT Market
Look at some of the following recent outsourcing deals in India:
Bharti-IBM deal ($750m!), Bank of India-HP, Dabur-Accenture.

Are Indian vendors neglecting booming business back home in their hot pursuit of business outside India (There are exceptions like all new "Yes Bank" which has decided to go for i-Flex solutions as their IT service provider)? Is there room for a new domestic-outsourcing oriented player?

Just random thoughts.

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