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Please select the IT white papers available for FREE download. All IT best practices are based on Altoros’s experience gained during several years of software product development and design. These IT white papers also explain how industry leaders accelerated time-to-market, increased productivity, and improved return on investment (ROI) with our software development best practices.

• How to Design and Manage Strategic Outsourcing Program and Avoid Common Mistakes
  Independent Software Vendors and Application Service Providers have become increasingly pressured by external market conditions in developing an offshore outsourcing strategy, yet few succeed in designing a strategic, not just tactical cost-savings approach. This outsourcing white paper will help you learn how to create efficient offshore governance model and avoid the most common mistakes.
  
• Five Ways to Measure Your Programmers' Performance
  When a company has dozens or hundreds of employees, or when face-to-face communication among team members is limited, the method of personal feedback as a means of employee evaluation becomes unreliable. This IT white paper describes effective, consistent methods of employee assessment and motivation based on best practices, conducted interviews, and hours of discussions—as well as some trial and error.
  
• Five Mistakes to Avoid in Creating User Interfaces for Mobile Devices
  When creating a mobile user interface, developers inevitably face a number of challenges. Most of them are caused by the difference in developing user interfaces for mobile and desktop applications. This IT white paper will explain how to create an effective user interface for mobile devices and avoid the most common mistakes.
  
• Engaging Social Networks: A Review of Five Marketing Campaigns and Five Tools
  To remain competitive, both industry leaders and smaller companies are forced to engage social networks to accelerate project delivery. When carried out thoughtfully, social network marketing can inspire the audience itself to further promote and even spread the product. This IT white paper provides a review of five successful marketing campaigns that involved social networks, and five tools that can be of use when implementing an interactive marketing campaign.
  
• How to Integrate Independent QA Testing to Shorten Development Cycles
  When it comes down to assuring software quality, companies find it difficult to give up the valuable time and strategic focus that get consumed by internal test efforts—a problem that escalates as development projects advance in both scope and complexity. This outsourcing white paper will provide you with a “How To” guide, tips, and IT best practices for integrating independent Quality Assurance and testing across the product life-cycle to shorten software development cycles.
  
• How to Identify and Mitigate Security and Intellectual Property Risks When Outsourcing Offshore
  When developing an offshore sourcing strategy, few Independent Software Vendors and Application Service Providers properly understand and mitigate the associated security and intellectual property (IP) risks. This outsourcing white paper discusses the vulnerabilities in the distributed software development environments and addresses critical business issues to mitigate those risks with qualified risk management techniques, team collaboration tools, and, critically, a verification and audit process, which result in greater visibility of the software development process, improved security, and reduced risk of IP exposure.