Re: What are the most important issues during offshore software development

Yeah, there are some many successful offshore stories.
That is why US or European companies outsourced their projects to India,
China, Russia , Brazil etc.

Internet make almost everything easy than before.




On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 3:57 PM, Andy Leighton <[email protected]> wrote:

>   On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 09:01:36AM -0700, Hassan Schroeder wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 9:49 PM, <[email protected]<shi.lin1%40kodak.com>>
> wrote:
> >
> > > So to understand well about offshore software development, I just raise
> this
> > > question. If somebody had such experience and you want to share your
> story,
> > > that is awesome!
> >
> > >From my somewhat limited (and Web-oriented) experience:
> >
> > 1) timezone differences can really blow your schedule;
>
> > 2) you think you're paying development professionals for quality, e.g.
>
> > 3) be specific about your dev and deployment environments, and
>
> [snip]
>
> > Obviously these observations are based on negative experience with
> > offshore development; unfortunately, I haven't had a positive one yet :-)
>
> My experiencs are pretty much the same. I have had some incredibly
> shoddy work delivered to me in the past (which we didn't accept and
> didn't pay for). However I believe it can work. I have a friend
> who runs some development with a mix of in-house people, on-shore
> foreign contractors for company X and an off-shore team (also for
> company X). They have had issues in the past but it seems to be
> going well at the moment. It has taken visits to their off-shore
> team; and they do have a long-term, ongoing, commitment to a
> fair amount of work; and fairly explicit specifications.
>



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