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

How do you overcome this situation? Or you just let the project fail?

On Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 1:00 AM, <[email protected]> wrote:

> > 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?
> >
> Speaking the language helps, but there's something in the attitude of
> Asians
> that (in my experience) makes it a lot harder to work with Asian (mainly
> but
> not exclusively Indian) firms than with most others.
>
> They often have an attitude of racial superiority to their customers, and
> are totally unwilling to accept that they may be wrong.
> If you look at the massive flood of threads on for example the Sun forums
> by
> lazy Indian kids who are utterly incompetent but claim to be senior
> students
> and want others to do their graduation work for them, it gives a clear
> indication that these kids are not interested in learning their trade, only
> in getting a piece of paper so they can pass themselves off to foreign
> customers as professionals.
>
> While such an attitude exists worldwide, it does appear to be far more
> prevalent in Asia than elsewhere (and especially in India).
>
> I've spoken (and worked) with quality Indians (and others) who clearly
> indicate that all Indians (and Pakistani and others) who have proper skills
> and integrity get out of the country as soon as they can, and often get
> good
> jobs elsewhere.
> That leaves mainly the incompetents, the lazy kids who can talk quick but
> don't know an integer from a float, to man the offshoring projects.
>
> > 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.
> >
>
> No, it's the people doing the work out there in Asia (and to a lesser
> degree
> eastern Europe).
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