RE: Midrange Jobs National Discussion

That's not actually true.  I've worked with offshore resources and the fact is, 
they need to be managed moreso than regular American employees particularly on 
project tasks that have any level of complexity.  For one, you have to make 
sure the project manager from the offshore company truly understands your 
business, project assignments, milestones for those projects, so forth and so 
on.   Next, you have to make sure that the resource assigned to work on your 
project task, understands his/her part.  I've literally seen where a company 
will use an offshore resource that takes 5, 10, even 20 times longer to produce 
the same output I produced in 2 hours (that's real life scenario)!

In fact, one manager at one of the largest printing companies in the world, 
tracked his time and found he was spending more time managing offshore resource 
project task than he was for consultants in-house who often telecommuted.

A truly seasoned IT professional does not need to be managed which is why we 
are where we are.  Offshore resources that American companies are paying for 
usually have between 0 and 3 years of experience and those offshore who manage 
them usually have less than 8 years of experience.

Please explain to me how you could avoid managing those resources with 
considerable less experience and the lack of a proven career as opposed to 
proven IT professionals ranging from 15 - 30+ years of experience?


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Here's what I don't understand.  A company that will offshore outsource

half way around the world, but refuses to use telecommuting

professionals. 

There's a difference between those two options. If you hire a
telecommuting professional all you've done is add to your IT staff. I've
added 1 person, and that person is difficult to manage since I don't see
them every day at the water cooler.

On the other hand, if I outsource my IT department (or, say just the new
development part) I've relieved myself of the entire headache. I don't
need to manage these people like I would telecommuters, they're now
simply a service provider to me. In essence I'm buying an package from
another vendor -- it might have been written just for me, but from my
point of view it's a package none the less. At least that's the story of
outsourcing management has been sold on. From their point of view it's
_very_ different from a telecommuter.

-Walden

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