<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23252349</id><updated>2011-04-21T15:30:48.741-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Xelaration Software Blog</title><subtitle type='html'>The purpose of this blog is to provide professionals with a forum to exchange ideas and opinions on software engineering best practices.</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://xelaration.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23252349/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://xelaration.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Xelaration Software</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12135630624005607853</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>2</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23252349.post-114126524413762934</id><published>2006-03-01T21:02:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-03-04T06:03:26.243-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Software Factory Offshoring</title><content type='html'>A lot of software organizations are getting on the off shore software factory bang wagon these days. In this model, an organization documents a set of specifications, ships these specifications accross the globe to India or China, and expects to receive a working piece of software in return. For this model to work, organizations have to be very disciplined, mature and prescriptive in the way they document their specifications. 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