Feb 15, 2008
Interesting article on offshoring
This is a really interesting look at offshoring, what really interested me here was the idea that collaboration and becoming a real partner is more critical now. This really touches upon Enteprise 2.0 in my mind - something I think that is going to grow so rapidly in 2008.
Simon Brown concludes “Offshore teams need to be fully brought in to the overall software project that they are helping to build and the focus needs to switch from seeing them as a service provider to seeing them as a part of the team. More involvement and more collaboration is what I think will help make offshoring a successful approach. In fact, let’s not even use the term “offshoring”, let’s just think about this as a distributed project team.”
I would never classify our partners in the Philippines as “offshore”. We performed as one team. Seems like this article was modeled after us.