I think there are many good reasons for multi-site development--availability of talent, time-to-market, and cost. These advantages come at a cost--communication, travel, cultural misunderstandings. Sometimes the benefits are worth the costs, sometimes not. It is my responsibility to make sure that I am worth my costs for enough customers.
Kent Beck Three Rivers Institute > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, November 08, 2004 9:10 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: The XP case against outsourcing (was RE: [XP] > [OT] Money is Nice) > > > > The case against outsourcing is that software development is > product development (read invention). The outsourcing > efforts that have virtually eliminated the US steel and > textile industries, among others, were mass production operations. > > IT outsourcing for application support and system operations > may work. I doubt that outsourcing for development efforts > will work, because of communication issues. They will be > tried. They will fail at even greater rates than current US > IT projects. > > Gary Brown 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/
