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I have seen outsourcing done many times. I have never seen even a partial success.

• spamizbad 13y ago
  What usually goes wrong?
  • njr123 13y ago
    The quality of the outsourced programmers is extremely low. They might cost 20% of a domestic programmer, but if you got even 20% of the productivity you'd be pretty lucky. These outsourcing companies will also only do exactly what you have specified. This means the specs have to be very precise, in a way that I think would be difficult to do if you weren't a programmer already
    • abalashov 13y ago
      Indeed. Plus general communication problems, language problems, time zone problems, and lack-of-shared-intellectual-culture problems. It's a lot to overcome to save a few pennies.