BT are in the tulip and are upsetting clients at quite a rate of knots. I am working on at least two potential clients who I know are about to pull the plug on their outsourcing deals with them and take the work back in house. Both as a result of BT's 'cost cutting' measures.
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No tulip sherlock award for the BBC
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lol,
I was at BT GS, I had the misfortune to work with TM guys, what a joke.
They were so cheap and cost effective that one piece of work farmed out for 2 months at about £300pd. After 2 months and zero progress I did the work in half a day.
hmmm me £200 to do the job TM £12,000 to not do the job. Total cost £12200.
BARGAIN!!!!!!
and the guy doing the work was one of their best, there was worseYour parents ruin the first half of your life and your kids ruin the second halfComment
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Originally posted by MrsGoof View Postlol,
I was at BT GS, I had the misfortune to work with TM guys, what a joke.
They were so cheap and cost effective that one piece of work farmed out for 2 months at about £300pd. After 2 months and zero progress I did the work in half a day.
hmmm me £200 to do the job TM £12,000 to not do the job. Total cost £12200.
BARGAIN!!!!!!
and the guy doing the work was one of their best, there was worse
And no, what was delivered didn't work.And what exactly is wrong with an "ad hominem" argument? Dodgy Agent, 16-5-2014Comment
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On my gig last year in Hong Kong, we had a dev team from Bangalore model building. There were three of them: one who was *very* good - so good, in fact, that I'm trying to get him a visa to come to UK to work for me, one was a fresh grad (read into that what you will) and the third who was basically a waste of DNA.
After HK I went over as supervisory modeller to Saudi Arabia and the team that the clientco had brought in were from a small consultancy in India (can't remember the name) who would basically:
(a) agree with everything I said
(b) be writing it all down
Indian company blagging their way onto site? No! Perish the thought!Comment
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Originally posted by Mich the Tester View PostAt a bank which shall remain nameless I tested on a project which involved adding one field to a database table, a query, the resulting output file and the xml interface of another app. All built plenty cheapness in India at a cost of 300,000 euros. Basically the Indians were taking advantage of the fact that the bank hadn’t enough technical expertise in house to work out what would be a reasonable budget for such a puny project. I informed the acceptants of my concerns that the project budget seemed a little expensive and they just sighed ‘well the powers that be have told us the Indians are cheaper so we have to use them now’.
And no, what was delivered didn't work.
Hopefully all such companies employing myopic off-shoring strategies will be replaced by companies who actually know what they're doing.Comment
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Originally posted by Mich the Tester View PostAt a bank which shall remain nameless I tested on a project which involved adding one field to a database table, a query, the resulting output file and the xml interface of another app. All built plenty cheapness in India at a cost of 300,000 euros. Basically the Indians were taking advantage of the fact that the bank hadn’t enough technical expertise in house to work out what would be a reasonable budget for such a puny project. I informed the acceptants of my concerns that the project budget seemed a little expensive and they just sighed ‘well the powers that be have told us the Indians are cheaper so we have to use them now’.
And no, what was delivered didn't work.Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God? - EpicurusComment
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Originally posted by PM-Junkie View Post...it very rarely does.Hard Brexit now!
#prayfornodealComment
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Originally posted by Menelaus View PostIndian company blagging their way onto site? No! Perish the thought!And what exactly is wrong with an "ad hominem" argument? Dodgy Agent, 16-5-2014Comment
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BT are raking it in on other large projects, like the NHS's multi-billion NpFIT money laundering programme. Boomed.Comment
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maybe they they should interview each of these people before they are let near a project.........you know, technical questions etc.....
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