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To: Mike da bear who wrote (56709)3/25/2006 12:08:38 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor  Read Replies (1) of 110194
 
Hi I was linked to this thread on another thread. I agree with you. I used to work at Dell R&D supply chain. Imho Dell has offshored their model/business away. They went into this in 2001 with all the Gartner and McKenzie hype like "what can you move offshore today". They started at Dell with what is considered "supportive" areas moving to India- QA, documentation etc. The reason for doing this was all cost, it had to do with somebody in finance looking at a resume of a US engr vs. an Indian engr.

The problem is, when you offshore a tough development effort like this, and leave only the "leads" out here, the jobs that those leads are left with is a daunting, uncreative documentation post. You have to document the hell out of everything to send to india for "coding". Anything that comes up in test cannot be easily fixed or redesigned on the fly- which contrary to popular belief happens ALL THE TIME in top R&D facilities. Instead, an entire uninspiring process starts whenever a fork in the road is discovered in design and it takes months instead of days to fix.

This development model which was championed by McKenzie and Gartner in the early part of the decade is just now hitting the product portfolios of Dell, Microsoft and Intel. Its obvious something is seriously wrong and its this.

Dell's future is quite bleak imho. Alienware has a US team, Dell should fire their r&d and staff up alienware in the traditional way. The supply chain at dell doesn't work anymore either.

If Dell wants to bring people to the US as engineers to work with green cards, I'm all for it. As long as engineering is produced in the traditional way with everyone in the same country, in the same building trying to achieve a common goal.
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