The secret is to put out small (non value) projects on sciptlance.com, odesk.com etc - stuff you could almost do yourself and be able to track the quality and time/cost benefit. Then when you have a big project, break it up into components and outsource the components. It will test the ability of your Architect/ project spec manager.
It it will be the way of the future, many start-ups in the US use this model and some pretty big ones too. It's not just cost. You get to leverage specific talents in parts of the world and not get too culturally defined in your thinking. I think the quality of coders in Eastern Europe far exceeds India or the Philippines. I am yet to try China and Vietnam. I did have Chinese coders when I was running a team here in Australia (foreign students) and they were awesome, although their english was not so good but we worked around that. On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 2:52 PM, Silvia Pfeiffer <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 1:55 PM, Michael Guilfoyle <[email protected]> wrote: >>> What kind of software are we talking about? I don't think outsourcing >>> works for anything that's technically innovative. >> >> Thats a misconception. There a lot of people doing seriously >> innovative projects with outsourcer's. If you've got a tech startup, >> its the way to go to keep your costs down on the product and spend on >> the marketing. > > The problem is that all the ideas and knowledge are outsourced, too. > I've seen startups that have lost all control over their own > technology this way. Others whose ideas were stolen and replicated on > other sites without a means to trace it. And yet others where the > technology developed outsourced was of so poor quality that they had > to spend massive amounts of money fixing it. I'd be really really > careful about the situations in which to recommend outsourcing - in > particular when it's offshoring. > > Silvia. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Silicon Beach > Australia mailing list. > > Guidelines on discussion: http://tr.im/ujKF > > No lurkers! It is expected that you introduce yourself: http://tr.im/ujMm > > To post to this group, send email to > [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/silicon-beach-australia?hl=en?hl=en -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Silicon Beach Australia mailing list. Guidelines on discussion: http://tr.im/ujKF No lurkers! It is expected that you introduce yourself: http://tr.im/ujMm To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/silicon-beach-australia?hl=en?hl=en
