[thelist] Outsourcing
Shane Miller
smiller at callcenters24x7.com
Mon Jan 30 10:11:38 CST 2006
I have worked with vendors in India off and on for about six years, and
I would generally agree with Peter. I wouldn't go there. It's never
really worked out for me, though I've done it sometimes for strategic
reasons when they have turned around and hired me to help consult with
their processes, etc.
If you decide to go the route of hiring programmers in India, I would be
happy to forward to you the contact information of the most reliable
contact I have found there. He's not a programmer himself but he lived
and worked in Chicago a few years, he has extensive experience working
with and for Americans, he has many resources in India and can help you
get the job done better than anybody else I've found over the years.
That said, I would still suggest you contract the work within North
America.
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[mailto:thelist-bounces at lists.evolt.org] On Behalf Of Peter Brunone
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Sent: Monday, January 30, 2006 8:07 AM
To: hershelr at netvision.net.il; thelist at lists.evolt.org;
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Subject: Re: [thelist] Outsourcing
If I were you, his savings due to outsourcing would be soaked up by my
exorbitant fee which would be necessary to make it worth my while to
deal with that situation.
But then again I've heard all the bad stories -- seen the results of a
few as well) --and few of the good. Time zones wouldn't be a problem
for you, but communication... well, that's another story.
Cheers,
Peter
From: Hershel Robinson hershelr at netvision.net.il
I was approached by a potential client last week. He has a medium sized
web app which has undergone such patching over the years that he is
ready for a rebuild from scratch. He is working on the proposal now. His
plan is to outsource the actual programming to cheap programmers in
India or the former Soviet Union from one of the various websites
offering such services.
He told me that his research indicates that "if you do your due
diligence there are some very reliable programmers." He is looking to
build in PHP/MySQL using an MVC pattern.
He is looking to hire me (or someone like me) to be a technical manager
to oversee the outsourced programmers and to understand the code and to
be able to arrange a transfer to a different outsource firm in the
middle should things go sour and also to be able to work within the code
after the build is done, for further changes etc.
What do people think about his idea of outsourcing? I wonder about the
quality of the code which will be produced. The quality of the backend
code, how true it will be to an MVC pattern, the quality of the produced
frontend code, how valid (HTML and CSS) it will be, will it use CSS
layout or even CSS for appropriate formatting.
Even if we require all these things from the programmers, what will be
the quality of the code itself and therefore how easy it will be to
continue to work in it?
I have not given a final answer to this client and were I to present a
strong case, he might be open to changing his plans. I myself am not
convinced either way. It could well be that either the code will not be
bad, or that it won't be really bad, yet it's still worth the savings he
realizes by outsourcing.
Anyone have any experience to share?
Thanks,
Hershel
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