Reasons to Outsource Software Development

Graeme Queen is the senior director for IT solutions delivery at a company where he leads teams in providing application development and support services to key business units. As an IT specialist, Graeme Queen has been involved in many aspects of outsourcing, including software development.

Software development outsourcing involves hiring a third-party provider to handle software-related work instead of using an in-house team. Businesses benefit from this outsourcing as they minimize costs while increasing their level of production. Additionally, outsourcing software development is beneficial to software-dependent businesses due to the following:

- Wider access to a talented and skilled workforce from a variety of locations, even different countries

- More time to focus on a company’s core processes and strategic goals

- Reduced risk by dividing parts and assignments among different service providers

- Enhanced protection against security breaches, by bringing tools and best practices to the function of software development

The Disputed History of Chicken Tikka Masala

As a leader at Standard Insurance Company for more than a decade, Graeme Queen has most recently served the insurance carrier as second vice president of strategic account services since 2017. When he isn’t working, he has been teaching himself to cook. One of Graeme Queen’s most successful dishes to date has been chicken tikka masala.

Composed of marinated and tandoor-cooked boneless chicken pieces in a slightly spicy tomato-cream sauce, Chicken tikka masala is popular in many places around the world. It is particularly appreciated in England, where people widely consider it to be the country’s unofficial national dish. 

Although chicken tikka masala achieved widespread cultural significance in England, its precise place of origin is a subject of some debate. Many people contend that British cooks created the dish to make northern India’s popular butter chicken more palatable to Western diners. Others contend that chicken tikka masala arrived in England from its native India in, more or less, its current form. Still others track the dish back to 1970s Glasgow, Scotland, where a Bangladeshi chef is supposed to have pleased a single customer by adding sauce to his marinated tikka-spiced boneless chicken kebabs.