Cool. That will make me sleep a little better. I am still somewhat worried though. Maybe because I am young and foolish. I wish I had more experience.
Stede --- William Pietri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, 2004-11-09 at 08:55, Stede Troisi wrote: > > Without a union (and maybe even with) our fictious > > company could NEVER, EVER compete with WIPRO and > other > > firms from India that can do the same things for > > 1/10th the price. > > The only reliable numbers I've seen on this were > from a company who > tried outsourcing a percentage of development work > to India. Their > conclusion was that it really cost about 50% as much > to get equivalent > quality. But this was in a pretty un-agile shop. > They could have more > easily saved the money by reducing the waste in > their existing process. > > Further, as others have pointed out, XP shops > provide advantages that > outsourcers cannot match. The obvious one is > agility, but there are > others. One of the side effects of building software > is the creation of > knowledge and skill. If you outsource the software > creation, somebody > else is reaping the benefit of the knowledge you > paid to create, and > will shortly be applying that skill to other > companies, some of them > your competitors. > > For non-core software, that's fine. Some companies > now don't just > outsource their payroll software, they happily > outsource the whole > payroll process. But for software that's part of > your competitive > advantage, outsourcing is a terrible business > decision. > > > That's why outsourcing doesn't really worry me. One > a recent project, > investors quizzed the CEO on why he wasn't > outsourcing the development. > Both he and the VP of product development vigorously > defended the > decision to do the work in house. Why? Because the > competitive landscape > didn't allow them the extra time and effort that > outsourcing requires, > and they needed to be able to respond to changes in > that landscape > within days, not months. > > William > > > > > To Post a message, send it to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To Unsubscribe, send a blank message to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ad-free courtesy of objectmentor.com > Yahoo! Groups Links > > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/extremeprogramming/ > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Check out the new Yahoo! Front Page. www.yahoo.com To Post a message, send it to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe, send a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ad-free courtesy of objectmentor.com Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/extremeprogramming/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
