One growing trend in the US is outsourcing to South America. Lots of great value developers down there in the same timezone. The second issue that still comes

One growing trend in the US is outsourcing to South America. Lots of great value developers down there in the same timezone. The second issue that still comes up is communication and culture. Successful cross cultural communication requires more clarity in messaging and tasks. It can work and can work well and deliver good quality at great prices, but the obvious savings are partially offset by the higher communication and management costs. Sometimes more than fully offset.