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Managing a Global Programming Team?
cwimmer asks: "I work for a technology company in the United States who survived the economic slowdown by trimming fat where necessary. Unfortunately, it seems that my small programming team must've looked like mostly fat to management: it has been trimmed from a high of 5 to the current 2. We have been given a very large programming project that we estimated would take 4 coders (the size of the team at the time) 6 months to deliver. I have been given deep pockets with regard to moving some or all of the project to an offshore partner, and I can probably get 4 or 5 programmers in India. Does anyone have any pointers on managing a team of programmers on the other side of the world?"
Learn to speak Hindu.
- A.P.
"Remember when the U.S. had a drug problem, and then we declared a War On Drugs, and now you can't buy drugs anymore?"
This is a good time for OSDN to push their "Sourceforge 3.1" software! Unite everyone globally with one piece of software!
Keep click "refresh" on this story (don't forget to use those slashdot subscription pages) and see the advertisement for sourceforge!!!
*ahem*
Good quote, too many chars. Seriously, the slashdot 120 char limit sucks!
You just need to learn how to shout "do it again but do it right this time" in several languages.
"Have you ever thought about just turning off the TV, sitting down with your kids, and hitting them?"
Let me get this straight.
You are asking a bunch of unemployed programmers how to best manage the foreigners you hired to take their places?
Hope you brought your asbestos suit.
Karma: Good (despite my invention of the Karma: sig)
Over here everybody is a code-monkey who hates the managers because they have a (completely unnecessary) university degree, get paid better and are, in general, smarter and equipped with a better human-to-human interface.
Dear Slashdot,
Since i'm the kind of guy willing to cut corners and drive nails with a socket wrench, i'd like to hire some Hindu guys to code for me. The 12 hour time difference means i'll never have to talk with them, and whenever they call, i'll be out of the office. This is great. Who cares of Indian coders know they'll never be held accountable for their mistakes, being half a world away? I dont want it done right, I just want it done. Who cares if they dont have indoor plumbing? I want 500 lines of code per day for 3 Rupee an hour, or i'm outtahere. What should I do?
Bowie J. Poag
Lease a Quickie Mart for 6 months.
Convert it into cubicle spaces.Leave room around the edges for cots.
Leave the Slurpie Machine and Microwave.
Hire the Indians to come and stay for 6 months.
"Just Smile and Nod." --Huck
Send me a check for $1195.00
Include with your check all external telnet, ftp, vnc http ports and usernames/passwords you need to use for the project.
We'll take care of ya.
now we need to go OSS in diesel cars
So why should we answer this guys question, Its just helping him fire us!! Let him go to indias version of slashdot and ask THEM!
There is no India slashdot -- that's why they're more productive. Maybe you can keep your job by reading less slashdot and writing more code.
you must be a product of cold war propaganda from an eastern bloc country.
a. serial killers are TOTALLY 80s. We have spree killers now dude. Oh yeah and acid wash jeans went out too, so get some new clothes.
b. vicious car chases and shoot outs on the city streets? uh huh. I have never beared witness to either of these scenarios.
c. Jets smashing high rises. Sure it sucked. But one fucking Indian typhoon whacked 30,000+ people. I say geography favors the US by a large margin.
Danger, Danger!! [robot swings his arms in terror]
room101 -- how much can you stand before they break you?
(they always break you eventually)
"rule 1: understand the foreign culture"
Which in the case of India means Tiger Penis Soup and forehead dots!!!