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?"

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Learn about Globalism.

[HanzoSan]

Definition of Globalism.

Definition #1. "It destroys national economies and transfers their economic assets, including public utilities, into the ownership and control of Global Big Business and Finance. It destroys small businesses and independent producers, ultimately forcing everybody to work in the interests of monopoly capitalism. It causes unemployment, economic hardship and financial uncertainty for the people, at the same time as record profits for multi-national corporations."


Definition #2 It overrides national sovereignty, party politics, and the democratic process, and can be used to undermine federal systems within nation states like Australia.

It is called "economic rationalism", and it is as phony as they come, a false theory concocted by equating two opposite concepts: oligopoly and free market.

After thirteen years of it, Australia is in chronic economic decline, and so is every other country, including Great Britain and the USA, which adopts it as economic policy. [ See Paul Ormerod, "The Death of Economics" (1994)].

Globalism (economic rationalism a ploy)

Re:regardless.

[Ooblek]

management sometimes has difficulty including costs that excel doesn't have a 'wizard' for

I like that quote. I might just use it. haha