Having been a "remote developer" for the last year for an agency in london I think you have to look at the following: 1) Timezones (not too much of a problem as I am just one hour out) 2) CVS/VSS, the agency uses VSS which is extremely slow over the internet 3) good communications (email, msn, telephone) to make sure they know what you are doing and their plans 4) Strcutured aproach to code (I use fusebox 3, no rants please) and using premade snippets for fusedoc in cfeclipse etc the structure can be taken away and used/modified by someone else
Make sure the goals are clear, and the hard part I guess is make sure your outsourcing/consultant also has good vision of the project My 2 cents. MD On Fri, 19 Nov 2004 22:22:17 -0800, Sean Corfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 08:55:19 -0500, Ryan Emerle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Has anyone had any success outsourcing large projects, or portions of > > large projects, overseas or to temporary/freelance employees? Any > > pros/cons to either? Any resources you can offer to someone exploring > > his options? > > It can work but expectations have to be set correctly and management > has to know what they are doing. I deal with a lot of folks in India > and recently I've been more and more impressed with them. You need > dedicated management staff (an overhead) and you need good specs > (something you *ought* to be doing anyway). The bottom line is that if > you have a good software process, outsourcing can be a really good > approach financially. If you have a bad process, outsourcing can be a > disaster. > > Back when I was working with BroadVision, I encountered a lot of very > poor quality Indian consultants and code and that made me very wary of > outsourcing. Since then - over the last four years - things have > improved dramatically. > > Check out http://www.macromedia.com/macromedia/hr/india/ > -- > Sean A Corfield -- http://www.corfield.org/ > Team Fusebox -- http://www.fusebox.org/ > Breeze Me! -- http://www.corfield.org/breezeme > Got Gmail? -- I have 1 invite > > "If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive." > -- Margaret Atwood > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Special thanks to the CF Community Suite Gold Sponsor - CFHosting.net http://www.cfhosting.net Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:184964 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
