DEVELOPING SOFTWARE THROUGH
CROWDSOURCING
Cinousis/Cronin
Introduction
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TopCoder
 Founded
in 2001
 Jack Hughes
 225,000 programmers
 Top Names
 Competitions
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Crowdsourcing
Client Concerns and Risk Factors
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If your business was a client what would be your main areas of concern?
Sensitive Data – Vetting Process
Confidentiality Agreements
Elite Programmers are small percentage of community
Scheduling
Disruption Techniques
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What are the industries that crowd-sourcing can disrupt? How?
Fall of Big Consultancy?
On Shore -vs- Off Shore Rates
Paying for the Output, Not the People
TopCoder Direct with Copilots
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What happens if Accenture started to develop software like TopCoder?
Switching Costs
Core Competency
Different Target Market with TopCoder Direct
Leveraging Crowdsourcing
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Can you apply systems thinking to re-imagine an organization that
heavily leverages crowd-sourcing in the future?
Start ups
Companies lacking huge technological base
Companies with various IT experience levels