5 Reasons Your Offshore Software Construction Project Is Failing
One of the fundamental misconceptions of software construction is that it is an “assembly line” or “mass production” problem. Management in many companies looks at software construction like building cars. Where can I go to find the lowest-cost workers and get them to assemble my software? This assumption is fundamentally flawed; constructing software is more like coming up with a new car design. There are thousands of considerations that come into play when coming up with that new design, and the designers need to work very closely with all the people marketing and selling the software (or car). Building great software is hard…over one-third of all software projects fail to meet their objectives and how we can fix them.
Because of the misconception above, many companies think they can just find an offshore consulting company in a country where the standard of living is very low compared to the country in which that company is operating. Hiring developers at rates like $20, $30 and $40 per hour is very attractive to those managing costs.
In this article we will examine why many projects using an offshore model fail to meet their objectives and how we can fix them.
- Bad match for offshore project
