On Mon, 08 Nov 2004 09:05:26 -0700, Steven Gordon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Stede,
>
> What is your alternative to "allowing companies to hire people
> in another country"?
>
> The XP case against outsourcing is that XP can produce more
> value to the customer per unit cost by working very closely with
> the customer than cheaper programmers can produce by working
> isolated from the customer (even if those cheaper programmers
> claim to be CMM level 5).
How closely you mean? Being able to talk to and see the customer would
be enough?
In maybe ten years, we will have LCD walls that look like an extension
of the office, but are actually showing an image with sound. This can
bring overseas communication really close to the personal level.
Cheaper doesn't mean worse. By the way, quality is defined by those
who pay for it. Every industry in the US is heavily outsourced.
Musical instruments, for example. Many companies have different
different brands for instruments "made in usa" and those "made in
places where you cant understand the letters of the alphabet".
Outsourced brands are cheaper and have "less quality" than "home-made"
ones. This "quality" difference is many times cosmetic and doesn't
affect the playability of the instrument. But sometimes it does.
That�s how things are being done since the 70s. Programmers are not
special or gods or anything. They are just a class of workers, subject
to the incensed "invisible hand of the market".
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