Julio’s Musings Around Columbia County, New York

I have been involved in various outsourcing initiatives over the course of the past two years. The concentration have been in Bangalore , India where I have visited 6 times helping to setup teams concentrating in Search and Web Portal development.
I have been impressed (though not surprised) with the level of sophistication, technical competence and drive of the individuals I hae interacted with during my various stints in India.
There are a number of challenges that are fixed with respect to outsourcing in India. The almost 8,500 mile distance between the Eastern USA and India and the 10.5 hour time differential. Though those obstacles can be overcome to an extent through various techniques, they are still immutable and present a fixed cost that chip away at the cost differential between USA and India based software engineers. For those primary reasons I am investigating outsourcing options closer to home.
BusinessWeek Outsourcing Article

Tags: Julio Hernandez Miyares, Jittr, outsourcing

Its getting close! The big moment. The moment I have been waiting for who knows how long! Going off on my own , taking the plunge, not having to work for some idiot or bunch of idiots, instead working for this idiot (me).

Of course the initiative will center around technology at least from my prespective and Social Networking and Web 2.0 in particular though for the hell of it , I am calling it Web 3.0 for now as the preceding terms have become ? at this point.

The company is product driven as I am going in partnership with one of the best Product Managers if not the best I have ever worked with. I would be the CTO of the company which shows you what’s in a title.
Without revealing anything; not that it matters as no one but me reads my blog , the product beta is set for October 30, 2006 in time for the Christmas season. All will be revealed soon! Hopefully some of you will be receiving beta invitations. Just send an email to me through this blog if you wish to be included.

Much excitement in the air around the idea and its practical and non-practical uses.

The following is the link to the company site. Not yet formally established but hopefully soon if I can get my partner and friend to move on that front. Perhaps I should just do it on my own.

Jittr

The bottom line is the difficulty in getting your “own thing” started is getting it started especially when you are collaborating with someone. Its seems that inertia is cumulative and instead of moving quicker with the more people you have, the harder it is to gain momemtum. I guess that is naturally understood by anyone that has worked in a bloated bureacracy as I have but I did not expect that in an enterprise of two individuals.

Well, bottom line is I’m in it now either in a group or by myself. My days working for “the man” are over and if that is not exactly how the future ends up , I can just come back here and delete this post and leave no evidence of my hubris.

Tags: Jittr, Julio Hernandez-Miyares, John Rabasa