I've only seen disasters, personally. That said, I've been toying with
the idea of setting-up shop in India. I'm more than capable of
communicating with people there and with training them... I could most
likely charge half of what a Western consulting firm would and still
keep myself on the salary I want and pay the staff a very decent
salary. For that matter I've also toyed with the idea of simply
freelancing from there and offering companies the ability to get work
done for much less than you'd typically expect to pay someone like me.
I'd be curious to know how many of you would be more willing to
outsource to India if you knew I was there overseeing operations,
training people, etc.?
~Simon
Simon Horwith
CTO, eTRILOGY ltd.
Member of Team Macromedia
Macromedia Certified Master Instructor
http://www.cfstandards.org
Peter Harrison wrote:
Thinking about this, it feels like there are good and bad in each country, so what you
need to do is go by past reputation.
Can you get a history on the people you are about to deal with? Hence my suggesting
rentacoder. Do they keep ratings of programmers?
I have worked with programmers both good and bad, and country of origin certainly
_does not_ say who will be good or bad.
(my 2p)
- Peter
-----Original Message-----
From: David Low [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 24 June 2004 13:50
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [ cf-dev ] OT: Outsourcing to India or elsewhere
Tried and failed, Paul - I worked on a site where the CF development was
farmed out to Pakistan, completely hashed up, and then returned to me
for emergency repairs - with �10,000 gone by that point. The developers
disappeared for days on end, the code had no comments so as to pick it
apart later, there was no real structure to it all and in the end, it
was rebuilt from scratch. I've heard similar horror stories from people
who outsourced Java and C++ projects to the near East countries - yet to
hear of a success...
Also worked with a developer from Pakistan who used to work on
sub-contracted projects like this, then came over to the UK to earn the
"proper rate". James from Imajica might bear this one out - we spent
possibly 4 or 5 months repairing some of the work he left behind.
Only good foreign development I've come across was from South Africa -
very responsive, working in the same time zone as us, and good but
speedy coding.
Wouldn't go near Pakistan again!
David
Paul Johnston wrote:
Has anyone successfully outsourced any projects to India (or
elsewhere)? I have heard some good things, but was wondering if there
were any stories ppl could share (keeping companies secret of course
unless they're pants). Doesn't seem like many companies do CF though!
The reason being I am looking into it for a friend who doesn't want to
pay my rates (erm...) but does want to have a fully featured website
custom built for him. He's willing to source it through me though so
I can take a cut, but also so I can provide the tech support for the
site (instead of it being somewhere else in world).
Paul
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