80. Offshore Follies
Dazzled by lower labor rates, the executives launch an offshore development scheme that increases the complexity of communication among development sites.
One of the most reliable ways to elicit a debate among software managers is to bring up the topic of offshore development. Over the past fifteen years, the use of offshore software development and support teams has gone from fringe fad to industry staple, while remaining controversial. Some managers see offshore development as the inevitable path forward, while others see it as a desperate move by clueless cost-cutters. Still others see it as a potentially useful tool that ...
Get Adrenaline Junkies and Template Zombies: Understanding Patterns of Project Behavior now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.
