Comments on: Thing I Have Learned About Outsourcing

By: ryan

ryan — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 16:39:25 +0000

I heard his dad might have a big opportunity on the table. He kind of explained it to me, but this was when kel was ready to pop so my mind wasn’t exactly with it. That’s cool that you get work from it too

By: casey

casey — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 13:49:09 +0000

heh – don’t laugh, his dad is lining me up for some work at the moment

By: ryan

ryan — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 08:09:56 +0000

So someone like Benny lajoie? Hehehe

By: casey

casey — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 05:22:10 +0000

ps… one thing that i realised in the dev project i mention above is that even if someone speaks english, it doesnt mean they THINK in english. when it comes to indians, the syntax and structure of indian dialect is TOTALLY different from english.

this means that communicating creative, abstract, out of the box, or otherwise fuzzy logic concepts basically won’t work. i hit my head against this particular brick wall for about 6 months before i figured out what was going wrong =)

i think the ideal, especially for dev projects and bigger project style tasks would be to makes friends with or hire an australian born indian who you can get on the same page as you, and get them to do project management.

By: casey

casey — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 05:17:32 +0000

heheh – yep.

backfill is key. i outsourced a 1200 hour dev project to india and my project leader has a baby in the middle of it. the organization i had engaged hadn’t duplicated the leader so i became responsible for project managing a team of indian developers. not what i had gone into it for.

you’ve covered some very good stuff here mate. i think the path your taking on this is a brilliant one – hack around and find out what works and doesn’t work, then take those lessons to build a business on.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 19:14:29 +0000

Hey Ryan

God hearing some infomation about your outsourcing projekt.

But it will help reading the post with some headlines along.

By: Tom | Build That List

Tom | Build That List — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 20:41:06 +0000

That is great to hear Ryan. I am looking into outsourcing a few jobs myself and being able to learn from your mistakes will save me a lot of time and effort!