Hotels.com have has reduced software product cycles down from 26 weeks to a 2 week cycle after moving development in-house.

Hotels.com has now moved to a 50-50 split in using offshore and onshore development teams. The decision to move development in-house allowed for tighter regulation of intellectual property.

Stuart Silberg, vice-president of technology, commented: “Agile is hard, but agile offshore is very difficult,"- "We weren’t achieving the kind of innovation that we could.