What’s Public About Outsourcing

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What’s public about outsourcing? Our book, “Outsourcing Through RentACoder” explains it all. Below are a few selected snippets that describe its importance and why you, as an outsourcer, should care.

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Excerpts:

• Being a programmer himself, Ian built Planet Source Code (http://www.planetsourcecode.com) — one of the Internet’s first public source-code websites that today, houses over five million lines of computer programming code and continues to attract a phenomenal number of website visitors every day. (page 26)
• Publically exposing an outsourcing work relationship can confuse customers and damage a company’s reputation. That’s why many businesses use a nondisclosure agreement (NDA). (page 52)
• Almost every industry suggests a set of standards, and related businesses are legally bound to follow them since they can affect public health and safety issues. Here’s a short list of some of those industries: (page 52)
• Some of the issues that address confidentiality answers what happens if a) sensitive information reaches the general public, b) sensitive information reaches the competition, or c) sensitive information is used against you. (page 91)
• Your company may regard outsourcing as a financial or security risk. Or it might fear outsourcing will invoke employee retaliation or a public revolt. (page 113)
• Just like with member profiles, RentACoder’s bid requests are publically accessible as well. And they too, are accessible through search engines. (page 120)
• Some of an open auction’s details are public to everyone who uses the site (and consequently to everyone who happens to find it through a search engine too). (page 174)
• There may be a time when you absolutely have to protect your project’s details from the peering public. A couple of example reasons why are: (1) when you use RentACoder (vWorker) on behalf of your place of employment and (2) when you’re 100% proof positive that even the slightest leak of a project’s details could spell your future’s doom. (page 205)
• Some parts of your business don’t need to be and shouldn’t be public. However if you outsource a process that directly affects the public, like billing or customer service, the public will find out one way or another and call you out on it if it’s denied. (page 369)

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