Comments on: More Than Cheap Labor: 7 Things to Know When Looking for an Offshore Team http://techcocktail.com/more-than-cheap-labor-7-things-to-know-when-looking-for-an-offshore-team-2008-09 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:51:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: links for 2008-10-01 « Brent Sordyl’s Blog http://techcocktail.com/more-than-cheap-labor-7-things-to-know-when-looking-for-an-offshore-team-2008-09/comment-page-1#comment-1439 links for 2008-10-01 « Brent Sordyl’s Blog Wed, 01 Oct 2008 13:36:07 +0000 http://techcocktail.com/home/?p=587#comment-1439 [...] 7 Things to Know When Looking for an Offshore Team Fanatical Commitment — Technical skills are easy to find, reliable people are not. Most offshore vendors don’t understand the concept of a deadline. As a business, you can work around technical limitations, but you can’t work around people who aren’t committed. Find someone who does what they say. Unexpected problems are bound to occur, but at the moment of truth your vendor should be mature enough to roll with the punches and get the job done. (tags: management offshore) [...] [...] 7 Things to Know When Looking for an Offshore Team Fanatical Commitment — Technical skills are easy to find, reliable people are not. Most offshore vendors don’t understand the concept of a deadline. As a business, you can work around technical limitations, but you can’t work around people who aren’t committed. Find someone who does what they say. Unexpected problems are bound to occur, but at the moment of truth your vendor should be mature enough to roll with the punches and get the job done. (tags: management offshore) [...]

]]> By: scott manley http://techcocktail.com/more-than-cheap-labor-7-things-to-know-when-looking-for-an-offshore-team-2008-09/comment-page-1#comment-1438 scott manley Mon, 29 Sep 2008 18:32:08 +0000 http://techcocktail.com/home/?p=587#comment-1438 Hi Raza, I agree with everything you said and in addition to that ,I would add one key point that most companies tend to neglect. If you're going to hire outside help for anything, it's key that you know (really know) what you want and have an efficient way to manage projects. No matter who you hire, if you haven't sat down and really detailed exactly what you want, you and the solution provider you selected are both going to pay for it. A good solution provider will call you on this up front so that you can work on it and both parties aren't wasiting their time. Yes, there's the possibility that the customer will just move on to a "yes man" company, but in that case, I don't think anyone's coming out a winner. Hi Raza,

I agree with everything you said and in addition to that ,I would add one key point that most companies tend to neglect. If you're going to hire outside help for anything, it's key that you know (really know) what you want and have an efficient way to manage projects. No matter who you hire, if you haven't sat down and really detailed exactly what you want, you and the solution provider you selected are both going to pay for it. A good solution provider will call you on this up front so that you can work on it and both parties aren't wasiting their time. Yes, there's the possibility that the customer will just move on to a "yes man" company, but in that case, I don't think anyone's coming out a winner.

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