I think it depends enormously in how you communicate with them (us, I should say). Give them responsibility, and where they are better than your in-house staff, treat them as such. And if Charlie's reading this, no, I don't think I'm better than you guys!
Don't rely on once a day/week status email, encourage more or less constant communication. Most of all, review commits.. Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device -----Original Message----- From: phil swenson <[email protected]> Sender: [email protected] Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2011 15:15:42 To: <[email protected]> Reply-To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [The Java Posse] Hiring developers outside the development offices country I've never seen hiring people in other countries to work as remote members of a team work well. Add in time zone differences, language barriers, crappy phone systems, and your result is not nearly as good as a local team. Feedback cycles can span days instead of minutes or hours. sounds like management views developers as commodities: 4x developers = 4x work. Is there an MBA involved in this idea?? ;) This all being said.... there might be projects that work ok in this structure. If you can tightly define what you want (like having them build plugin adapters to a framework), it might work ok. On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 2:28 AM, [email protected] <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi all. > > I work for a company with a small team off 6 developers. It looks like > in the not to distant future we will have a lot more work to do than > we can handle with such a small staff. Our management want to hire > developers in another country to either assist us off-site, or fly > them over to work with us. This is because we can get 3-5 developers > there for the price off one locally. > > I am wondering if others have had experience with hiring people in a > different country with cheaper labor to support in development. Our > opinion is that we will produce better results by hiring great > developers locally than going to a different country to hire. Maybe I > don't have an open enough mind about this, or maybe management is all > wrong in thinking that a developer is a developer, and we just need to > find the great ones in a different country at a lower price. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "The Java Posse" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
