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To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (64973)	10/13/2003 4:42:25 PM
From: Stock Farmer	Respond to of 77400

In other words, your concept of offshoring involves the ONE individual here doing all design, and 100 people offhshore "coding it in". Interesting interpretation, but incorrect. My concept of offshoring is no different than my concept of multi-site or multi-team development. Success depends on proper selection and distribution of a few key individuals, and a properly administered suite of processes and methods. And it's the manager's responsibility to set all this success infrastructure up. If you try to manage a multi-site development the same way you would manage a room full of engineers in close proximity to the end customer... well, good luck, but it will most likely fail. Even if all the sites are within San Jose. It's a fact: multi-site (or even multi-team) development is not as tolerant of error as the mono-team approach. It needs better management, more rigorous processes and heightened communication. The trick of making it work however is juggling the cost savings of labor versus the added cost of management complexity. But the savings are there to be leveraged. But not everyone is competent at effective long-distance management. Just because people are experts at implementing something doesn't make them experts at managing the implementation. In fact, often the complete opposite. In my opinion, most of where we go wrong is in the choice of project managers who are experts in the problem being solved, as opposed to choosing individuals who are good at administration of effective process. I think you mistook my message.