Title: Suggestions to deal with Offshore Development Projects

Summary: Simple tips that can make you Offshore Development Projects successful as well make you much more confident while pitching for a sale with Clients.

1. Do not accept a team just because it’s ready. Build the team yourself.
2. Put every candidate through at least the same vigorous interview process as you practice with your local candidates.
3. Before leaving, make sure you plan what your team will be working on tomorrow.
4. Try to use offshore teams for fixed-price projects only. This will allow you to better predict the final cost of the project.
5. Fixed-price projects require more work from your side during the initiation of the project – you’ll have to actually take the time and think what you are planning to develop, create a functional specification that reflects the final product.
6. Do not use the same team on the new project just because you’ve worked with these people. Their technical skills may not match your new requirements.
7. When you give an assignment, make sure that the other side understood exactly what had to be done and by when. You may get the “Yes, Sir” answer, but when the delivery time comes, you’ll realize the other party did not even understand what had to be done.

If your outsourced project failed, and you are trying to find who to blame for it, look in the mirror. Do not blame the offshore team.

About the Author

xyg is a Project Lead consultant working with a . He has authored few articles about offshore projects.