How bad does an outsource co have to be before UK co. gives up on them

[TheVoice]

Just get on and do the needful!

Those of you who have to suffer Accenture's nightmare will appreciate these:-

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Cherry Mistmas!!

[SantaClaus]

To manage offshore workers you need to have good issue tracking and logging
software, last IB used http://www.jira.com, which worked well as they can't ignore you as everything is tracked.
another good tactic is to use instant messenger to keep tabs on what there
working on otherwise they'll just start watching bollywood movies or worse
start posting on cuk!

I hate that f£cking Jira.

At one point at old ClientCo I spent more time on Jira than actual work.

[Purple Dalek]

I hate that f£cking Jira.

At one point at old ClientCo I spent more time on Jira than actual work.

Jira is good for you. Management know this because developers hate it so much.

[minestrone]

Jira is probably one of the poorer tools for managing software development. It is as slow as a week in the jail as well.

Anyway having used jira to manage an off shore team we found that they would try to create more work by raising pointless issues all day.


We used to find bugs like "I tried to change the page encoding on IE and the page never came out the same"

IT was almost getting to the stage of "I switched my machine off and the application stopped working"