...and only requires triple the management, analysis, oversight, and QC. I guess they assume their onshore people will work harder. What also isn't appreciated

...and only requires triple the management, analysis, oversight, and QC. I guess they assume their onshore people will work harder. What also isn't appreciated besides the immediate dead pool effect outsourcing creates, is that it creates a scapegoat for the onshore people. When your IT department is down the hall and you throw them under the rug, they walk down and ... meetings... ensue. When they are around the world and subservient (because they are cheap and everyone knows it, so it's assumed they're bad and you can blame anything on them), then everyone will use that as an excuse, ESPECIALLY since all the extra management/requirements/analysis burden falls on them. The issue with failed projects in the mythical man month is and has ALWAYS been communication and understanding. 10 time zones and a language and cultural barrier does not make up for that. It is amazing a 1970s era book remains so ignored. It should be taught in MBA school. No I mean MBA not MIS. I highly doubt it is. It amazes me that accounting is treated as a core subject of MBA, while basic IT literacy and process is not, even though there is FAR more IT that accounting in a modern enterprise.