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]]> By: Sam http://www.monsoonco.com/blog/outsourcing-is-dead-long-live-outsourcing/comment-page-1#comment-20 Sam Thu, 10 Jan 2008 15:35:04 +0000 http://216.224.120.187/heavyrain/?p=85#comment-20 There is not complaints of outsourcing. Everything you named works. The cars, the drinks and the food - Rides really nice, goes down smooth and taste really good. Outsourcing software would be good too, if it didn't have the poor quality and didn't require 2-3 times the amount of effort to get it completed! There is not complaints of outsourcing. Everything you named works. The cars, the drinks and the food – Rides really nice, goes down smooth and taste really good. Outsourcing software would be good too, if it didn’t have the poor quality and didn’t require 2-3 times the amount of effort to get it completed!

]]> By: David Burton http://www.monsoonco.com/blog/outsourcing-is-dead-long-live-outsourcing/comment-page-1#comment-19 David Burton Wed, 09 Jan 2008 12:27:47 +0000 http://216.224.120.187/heavyrain/?p=85#comment-19 One of the main reasons that software development out-sourcing has such a bad reputation is that it's very different to buying a German car or French wine. In both those situations the company is generally based there, so it draws upon existing expertise, while retaining nearby control of the production process. It is then shipped as a completed product. In a common software development outsourcing situation, the general form of the product, if not the full specification and design is handled by a company in one country, and then the work is done by another company in another country. The situation is more akin to Royal Enfield motorcycles - the product is made at a low cost abroad (India, for Royal Enfield), and then more effort has to be put in to ensure that the resulting product meets the desired standards. The resulting cost of the product is not significantly cheaper than other production methods, but avoids setting up a significant production team in this country. Outsourced development gets a bad name for getting rid of established teams in the hope of saving money, dispensing with the local quality control. Aside from that common mistake in dispensing with quality control, it's not really that different to other manufacturing - whenever a car maker or other manufacturer decided that it's going to stop producing its product locally and instead make it abroad and ship it across, unions are up in arms about the loss of jobs, and negative publicity is generated about the change. It's not then as much about whether the quality will be poor quality (although with IT it's generally seen as the equivalent of shipping your manufacturing to a random chinese plant, quality-wise), but about protectionism and hurting the local economy. One of the main reasons that software development out-sourcing has such a bad reputation is that it’s very different to buying a German car or French wine.
In both those situations the company is generally based there, so it draws upon existing expertise, while retaining nearby control of the production process. It is then shipped as a completed product.
In a common software development outsourcing situation, the general form of the product, if not the full specification and design is handled by a company in one country, and then the work is done by another company in another country.
The situation is more akin to Royal Enfield motorcycles – the product is made at a low cost abroad (India, for Royal Enfield), and then more effort has to be put in to ensure that the resulting product meets the desired standards. The resulting cost of the product is not significantly cheaper than other production methods, but avoids setting up a significant production team in this country.
Outsourced development gets a bad name for getting rid of established teams in the hope of saving money, dispensing with the local quality control.

Aside from that common mistake in dispensing with quality control, it’s not really that different to other manufacturing – whenever a car maker or other manufacturer decided that it’s going to stop producing its product locally and instead make it abroad and ship it across, unions are up in arms about the loss of jobs, and negative publicity is generated about the change. It’s not then as much about whether the quality will be poor quality (although with IT it’s generally seen as the equivalent of shipping your manufacturing to a random chinese plant, quality-wise), but about protectionism and hurting the local economy.

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