Subj : Re: experience with indians?
To   : comp.programming
From : David
Date : Tue Sep 06 2005 12:22 pm

On Tue, 6 Sep 2005 08:04:32 UTC, "Giuseppe Dini" <dinniz@hotmail.it> wrote:

> have you had experience with indian software houses?
> If so, what do you think about them? Suggestions?
> What to be aware about?
> thank you

  Software groups located in India are no different than any other
software group that you can think of.  This may include your own
in-house groups.  They are as reliable, trustworthy, and cost
effective as any other group you have never, ever dealt with 
before.

  If you think that outsourcing some of your work is useful and
cost effective, you need to insure that you have appropriate 
controls in place to manage it.  You cannot simply outsource
overnight and even pretend that the first project will be a 
success.

  There are groups that I would recommend and those that I
would not.  It mostly depends on what working relationship 
you need and are willing to put in place.  You will have many
of the same problems outsourcing as you would for work-at-home,
co-located, branch-office, or foriegn-office groups.

  I've not worked for a company that had sufficient controls
in place to consider outsourcing in a long time.  Those that
did, eventually saw that for the given quality, timeframe,
and results from various vendors were occasionally worth 
trying.

  The concept of cheap labor elsewhere is a nice panacea, but
your costs are rarely rooted deep within just that area you
are probably considering to outsource.  There are also additional
costs to those you have now that will be needed to insure that
both groups achieve the results that were intended.

  David

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