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

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Jens


Am 03.07.2008 um 18:38 schrieb Luiz Esmiralha:

> The problem is not outsourcing to Asia. The problem is outsourcing. I
> bet my Gibson Les Paul that results would be much poorer if, for
> instance, brazilian companies offshored systems development to
> american or german companies. After all, how many americans or germans
> out there can communicate well in Portuguese?
>
> Software professionals from India, Brazil, China and Eastern Europe
> are just as knowledgeable as those from North America and Western
> Europe, so it is offshoring that hurts product quality.
>
> Best regards,
> Luiz Esmiralha
>
> On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 1:01 PM, <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 1:21 AM, shi lin <[email protected]>  
> wrote:
> >> > Yeah, there are some many successful offshore stories.
> >>
> >> And Enron was a "success story" once -- before it wasn't. :-)
> >>
> > Yup. Been there, done that, seen the disasters.
> >
> >> > That is why US or European companies outsourced their projects
> >>
> >> Companies outsource because it's cheaper. In the cases I'm  
> personally
> >> familiar with, the project owners simply didn't care that the end
> >> product
> >> was unmaintainable, barely-usable crap.
> >>
> > Mostly. More often the project owners were forced into it be  
> boardrooms who
> > didn't want to know.
> > Offshoring was "kewl" and made you look "modern" because  
> "everybody does it
> > so it must be good".
> >
> >> Their only goal was to show their boss the project was done, check
> >> it off, look good for the next performance/salary review.
> >>
> > The goal was usually to do it on the cheap, never mind the  
> consequences as
> > I'll no longer be managing the project after it enters maintenance.
> >
> >> Forgive me if I'm skeptical of all the white-paper "success  
> stories"...
> >>
> > Nothing to forgive.
> > While there are successes (I've seen them) those do NOT involve  
> offshoring
> > to Asia and only involve offshoring the mechanical work of  
> turning highly
> > detailed technical designs into code modules.
> >
> >
>
> 

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