Comments on: Interesting article on offshoring http://www.fiveclouds.com/2008/02/15/interesting-article-on-offshoring/ collaboration, creativity and the next big thing Mon, 26 Jan 2009 16:01:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: bflaherty http://www.fiveclouds.com/2008/02/15/interesting-article-on-offshoring/comment-page-1/#comment-10 bflaherty Fri, 15 Feb 2008 11:47:49 +0000 http://www.fiveclouds.com/2008/02/15/interesting-article-on-offshoring/#comment-10 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. 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.

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