My pennysworth. I recently came out of a gig with a well known Indian based IT consultancy that rhymes with PATA. I was not only shocked to learn that they had sold a project on the basis of having highly skilled resources off shore, and were also supplying top notch skills on shore as well. I met the onshore resource and could have cried. One of the lads kept sloping in later and later each day, on average coming in around 11:30 and buggering off at 16:30 
After the requirements gathering phase there was a period of around 6 weeks where the off shore team (who were engaged from day 1, I have no idea why) sat on their hands while the customer struggled to deliver their part of the bargain - the dev environment.
I had tasked the off-shore team with reading the spec and listing out their questions.
6 weeks later we were ready to go, dev environment ready. Off-shore team now demanding they have extensive questions on the spec. But you've had 6 weeks, what have you been up to? I suspect they were cross charged to another project, hence doubling their worth to the consultancy but at great cost to the customer.
Every day was the same. The expert resource hit a snag, and stop. No intelligent thought processes, common sense or diligence. Would not ask for help, just slip into neutral and wait for the next team meeting.
The laugh of it was, the whole project was sold on the basis that they'd had 3 days training 4 months earlier on the tool we were using. The onshore resource that sloped in late told me he was going to roll off this project onto the next project as a technical lead after absorbing my knowledge.
I have nothing but the utmost contempt for these slack-jawed, lazy, cretinous, unduly stubborn and ignorant cretins.
Balance sheets are lower, costs lower and a wealth of technical debt getting heaped on the companies that are foolish enough to get tangled up with these cowboy consultancies. Just wait for the first IT related **** up that costs a bank a few million quid. It happened at the LME, all over the front pages of the FT.
Reputation is a fickle thing.
After the requirements gathering phase there was a period of around 6 weeks where the off shore team (who were engaged from day 1, I have no idea why) sat on their hands while the customer struggled to deliver their part of the bargain - the dev environment.
I had tasked the off-shore team with reading the spec and listing out their questions.
6 weeks later we were ready to go, dev environment ready. Off-shore team now demanding they have extensive questions on the spec. But you've had 6 weeks, what have you been up to? I suspect they were cross charged to another project, hence doubling their worth to the consultancy but at great cost to the customer.
Every day was the same. The expert resource hit a snag, and stop. No intelligent thought processes, common sense or diligence. Would not ask for help, just slip into neutral and wait for the next team meeting.
The laugh of it was, the whole project was sold on the basis that they'd had 3 days training 4 months earlier on the tool we were using. The onshore resource that sloped in late told me he was going to roll off this project onto the next project as a technical lead after absorbing my knowledge.
I have nothing but the utmost contempt for these slack-jawed, lazy, cretinous, unduly stubborn and ignorant cretins.
Balance sheets are lower, costs lower and a wealth of technical debt getting heaped on the companies that are foolish enough to get tangled up with these cowboy consultancies. Just wait for the first IT related **** up that costs a bank a few million quid. It happened at the LME, all over the front pages of the FT.
Reputation is a fickle thing.
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