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"Almost everyone who does a first offshore (job), has a problem, says Travis. The second and third attempts gradually get better. The culprit is often a bad process at home.

Many IT managers have poor processes at their internal installations that manage to perform well even though the IT people may be operating in an ad hoc manner, he says. This situation, however, is a recipe for disaster when operations are moved offshore." From Market Research Firm Touts Outsourcing's Cost-Savings http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB20031031S0010,

Duh

Question: how much more cost-effective would it be to just fix your processes first?

True story: A retail video rental company has an offshore team working on a new point-of-sale system. There are 70 programmers in India, and the project is scheduled to take 9 months

opinion: fix your domestic processes and a team of 10 could build the same system in 6 months