Re: Re: Summing up and moving on (I hope)

Dale Emery wrote:

> Hi Bill,
>
> > I believe that XP and its practices may form the basis for the solution
> > to problems that outsourcing "solves."
>
> What problems do you see organizations trying to solve by outsourcing?
>  Can you give a few very specific examples?

I gave two in the posting above; cost and culture clash.  I can be more
specific about those two if that's what you're asking.

When outsourcing began to take off back in the '80's, the cost and culture
of IT were two of the primary drivers.

PC's brought computing to the corporate masses.  IT began to develop
applications for new areas of the business.  That brought IT culture into
contact with parts of the corporation that had not been exposed to that
culture before this.  The IT culture was quite different than that of the
rest of the corporation in many cases and friction resulted.

PC's and the development of applications for new areas of the business also
caused demand to exceed supply with respect to IT developers.  That drove IT
salaries up leading to new sources of friction.

Outsourcing proposed to solve these problems, reduce these frictions, in two
ways.  First, the Outsourcer would remove the programmers and their culture
from the business and replace it with an interface called a Consultant that
would walk, talk, and look more like the business people with whom it
interacted.  Second, because software development was the Outsourcer's core
competency, the implicit if not explicit statement was that, managed by
someone who knew how, the IT staff would be more productive and the company
would get more "bang for the buck."

Bill


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