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Agree with most points. A plug and play never works when it comes to scaling engineering function through not just india but anywhere. One must invest from a
by mindhash 9y ago
Agree with most points.
A plug and play never works when it comes to scaling engineering function through not just india but anywhere.
One must invest from a long term standpoint. Offshoring isn't a shortcut to scaling, its better from cost perspective.
Its best to first get someone on the team who knows local ecosystem(offshore) and is good fit from your culture standpoint. Its a harder process but once you get this right you are most likely to succeed.
- hinkley 9y agoI kinda blame the dotcom boom for this. Everyone lamented the bad habits developers learned but from my perspective it was the managers who picked up the worst tricks. As a manager you can make any lie work for about 18 months. After that the devs know if you’re full of shit and by the two year mark you have to find a new group of developers to feed your lines to. You aren’t building a product. You’re building a team that knows how to build that product. If you don’t then version 3 won’t ever happen. If you do it poorly enough version 2 will not happen. And once you’ve taken that risk of making a new product, why wouldn’t you want a version 2 or 3? Isn’t that where all the money is?