Indian Development Teams

[MarillionFan]

So whats the deal with Indian Development teams. Just had a project go two months over, which was interesting considering it was a six week project.

Not allowed to talk directly to the developers, have to go through the manager, who doesnt manage. Everything is sequential.

Went to a meeting and there were 20 people in it, of which only two spoke. Why?!?! WHY?!?

The whole thing was literal, no thought placed into anything, if it looked wrong, they programmed it wrong, when I questioned it, the team would say, well it looked wrong but thats what the BRD says, so we did it that way!!!!

Arggahhhhh!!

Has anyone had a successful implementation using an outsourced Indian dev team?

[AtW]

Has anyone had a successful implementation using an outsourced Indian dev team?

Cricket maybe?

[moorfield]

Has anyone had a successful implementation using an outsourced Indian dev team?

No. Just hours and hours and hours of agony fixing all their source code control kockups and compile errors.

[oracleslave]

Has anyone had a successful implementation using an outsourced Indian dev team?

Not yet, although that may change come June when this goes live. Unlikely though.

[AtW]

Have to say that until recently I did not really get first hand experience with this outsourcing, but now judging by Indian support on one of my sites I have to say they are totally abysmal, it would have been better if there was no support at all - at least it won't have your hopes up and they won't cause problems by misconfiguring things. New release will be on different host

[too_many_details]

hmmmm, outsourcing has been around for many years. I'm surprised this is the first time you have encountered it!

What you describe is fairly common when the client is naive enough to think offshore developers == local developers. To make it work better, you have to change your approach.

Get your specs 100% right and it will all work perfectly is one option!

R

[moorfield]

Get your specs 100% right and it will all work perfectly is one option!

In which case one might as well write and implement the bloddy thing oneself.

[tay]

I work with a team that outsources work to Indian developers... to my great shock.. they do very well. But they have a liason full time in our client site, and he has great communication, and common sense approach.

It can work, but you need a decent liason point, and that is nearly impossible.

[AtW]

It can work, but you need a decent liason point, and that is nearly impossible.

Is it like ambassadors on Babylon 5?

[MarillionFan]

In which case one might as well write and implement the bloddy thing oneself.

I agree with that. They were to replace a custom system that I had written, it took me two months and supports 100 concurrent users and cost two months contracting money so about £20k

I need a system scalable to 2000 users. So far we've spent about £300k and all they had to do was copy the first system!!!!!!!


It took me four weeks to do the freaking business requirements and they have the existing solution

So far, the new system has only scaled to 25 concurrent users.

Grrrrrr