Bob La Quey wrote: > On Jan 16, 2008 9:03 AM, Darren New <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Definition is hard >>> to outsource depending as it does on the "customer" who often >>> must be worked with face to face. Implementation OTOH is >>> realtively easy to outsource if one has a good solid definition, >>> which is, of course, a _big_ if. > > First I completely agree that your list does a good > job of defining the problem. I do _not_ think that > you avoid the probem by avoiding outsourcing. You > have these problems whether you outsource or not.
The all-to-common situation is that some PHB says let's outsource, and nobody clues him/her in. Sometimes it gets all "arranged" by intermediaries who are equally clueless, and then some lowly techhead is told to "make it work". Almost invariably, it doesn't. > > So let's take them one by one. <total snippage> Regards, ..jim -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-lpsg
