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The Pitfalls of Outsourcing Programmers

Why Some Software Companies Confuse the Box with the Chocolates

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  1. Michael Bean, “The Pitfalls of Outsourcing Programmers,” Forio Business Simulations (http://www.forio.com). See http://www.forio.com/outsourcing.htm.

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  2. Joel Spolsky, In Defense of Not-Invented-Here Syndrome. First published on the Web October 14, 2001. http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000007.html.

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Bean, M. (2005). The Pitfalls of Outsourcing Programmers. In: The Best Software Writing I. Apress. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-0038-3_3

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