Agile Offshore discussion on theserverside.com

There is a very interested discuss going on at theserverside.com
about agile offshore.

From those post, some are not memories from the offshore dev.
My point in the thread is:
As i always said, you are agile team locally and want to go offshore.
then first step is the find an agile offshore team, then build long team releationship.
this will lead a success in long run

http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?m=c.reply&thread_id=45367#232704

How to add your website to google and other search engines

After create a new website, our problem is how to list that site in google and other search engines.
There are two steps here:

• Submit you url to google

http://www.google.com/addurl.html
it will take severl days, or even one month for google to record your new website. to speed up the process, you need take more action.

• add extenal links to you website

For those website with high PR value, googlebot will visit it everyday.
So you can add links to you website.
The easy way to do it is put some posts in bbs, email list with link to you site. Then you new site have chance to showup in several days
Links to other search engines:
* yahoo
https://login.yahoo.com/config/login_verify2?.src=siteex&.intl=us&.done=http%3A%2F%2Fsiteexplorer.search.yahoo.com%2Fsubmit

*dmoz.org
It is Open Directory Org. provider content to most search engine
http://dmoz.org/add.html

Agile Offshore -- EObject Software

I am following agile development for the past three years. Our team was setup as a small distributed team in a global development organization.

Since i am more and more involved in open source development, i really see the best fit between agile process and offshore/distributed development.

Then i ask myself: why not setup an agile offshore team to help those small/mid companies outside there. It is a flat world!

My answer is EObject Software

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