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Simon Baker

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Managing costs provides a false sense of security Posted: Feb 5, 2012 9:42 AM
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In the software world, budgets are mostly about headcount and capital expenditure. Headcount is managed by cost per unit, where a unit is a person considered to be more or less a uniform resource capable of producing fixed output. On a cost per unit basis maybe 100 people offshore are cheaper than 10 onshore. But in my experience, more people means more waste.

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