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

"Luiz Esmiralha" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.programming.language-of-the-year
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On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 3:53 PM, Hassan Schroeder
<[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 11:42 AM, Luiz Esmiralha <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Ok, let's get more factual. In a 2004 study, one third of the UK
>> companies interviewed said that ...
>
> Uh, "companies" aren't interviewed -- people are; *who* was being
> asked to evaluate these? The CIO? CFO? The pointy-haired project
> owner? The end users struggling with the result? The in-house staff
> assuming responsibility for maintainence and enhancement?
>
> I'd bet you'd get wildly disparate definitions of "success" and "failure"
> from those different constituencies... :-)
>

Uh, it's a Gallup study concerning 925 companies around the world and
150 in the UK, but I think you can buy it from them if you want more
details. Presuming the study is flawed is a guess. We can guess
whatever we want, including that stones fly occasionally when no one
is looking at them.

My point is that we should turn this topic away from "Indians are
lazy" to "outsourcing is risky". "Indians are lazy" is a very poor
excuse for a failed project.

Best regards,
Luiz
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