Hi Jon,
IDE is installed locally and source control to a remote server. That means that the remote team does have access to most of the source code and there is a risk with that which you need to be comfortable with. I hope that helps, Daniel Barnett ----------------------------------- E: [email protected] W: <http://www.worketc.com/> www.WORKetc.com From: Jon W [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, 4 July 2012 10:36 AM To: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [SiliconBeach] Blended-shore dev teams? Dan, How do you handle the development environment for your offshore people? Do they have environments installed locally, VPN into your network or do you provide remote access to VMs? Regards, Jon On Tuesday, July 3, 2012 4:24:09 PM UTC+10, Dan wrote: Hi Mike, We've had a permanent onshore/offshore product team for just over 2 years now, with a similar approach to what you're suggesting: * Strategy, architecture and UX onshore * Coding in China & Bulgaria * Quality/Review back onshore It’s working really well now, once we fully appreciated that an offshore needs to be managed the same as an onshore team (seems like a stupid oversight, in hindsight) * The offshore team has to be properly managed every day. At first we would assign a discrete project and expect it to come back magically completed to expectation a week later. Sooooo naïve. * Make sure your onshore team has experience managing people and that they actually want to manage people. I made the mistake of assuming my lead onshore developer wanted to move into a management role. It wasn’t the case and resulted in a bumps. * When you’re testing or trialling an offshore team, pay real close attention to the questions they ask. You want to see if they quickly and fully comprehend the project (both from a technical and user perspective) as well as the quality of questions asked. We actually tell them at the start of a trial how important the questions they ask are. * Initiative. You want to make sure your offshore guys will raise issues with you and seek out their own solutions. We found that with some candidates there seemed to be a cultural issue at play. Everything was always “ok ok” … until it wasn’t. The other little requirement we have of onshore/offshore teams is that at the end of every day they answer 4 simple questions and send that to the group: 1. What did I work on today? 2. What were the challenges I encountered? 3. How I overcame those challenges 4. What I am working on tomorrow You can read more about how we rolled this out here: http://www.worketc.com/blog/Development/105 Hope that helps and good luck! Daniel Barnett CEO - WORKetc ----------------------------------- E: [email protected] W: www.WORKetc.com -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of mike@mrKruntz Sent: Sunday, 1 July 2012 7:54 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [SiliconBeach] Blended-shore dev teams? Hey all, I was hoping someone here may be able to help me out? I've noticed a rise recently in dev teams taking a blended shore approach to their business, having architecture and strategy managed locally and coding and manual work done overseas (china, Philippines, Ukraine and India predominantly). I know most people here would probably be in favour of internal and local teams but for rapid prototyping, this approach may be advantageous and cost effective. Does anyone here have an insight or experience working with a blended-shore company (good or bad)? Disclaimer (I'm currently searching for a project based dev team to rapid prototype a number of start-up concepts) Thanks heaps ! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Silicon Beach Australia mailing list. Vist http://siliconbeachaustralia.org for more Forum rules 1) No lurkers! It is expected that you introduce yourself. 2) No jobs postings. You can use http://siliconbeachaustralia.org/jobs To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] <mailto:silicon-beach-australia%[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. Vist http://siliconbeachaustralia.org for more Forum rules 1) No lurkers! It is expected that you introduce yourself. 2) No jobs postings. You can use http://siliconbeachaustralia.org/jobs 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
