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Ask Slashdot: Is Outsourcing Development a Good Idea?
New submitter penmanglewood writes "I am a developer at a small IT company, and we primarily make software and games for the education market. I used to work with a team of developers, but for reasons outside the scope of this question, my boss and I are the only ones left. My boss says that our new strategy is to use outsourced developers to do the 'monkey work' for us. To me, this sounds like a bad idea. Do we give the developers access to our internal libraries? How will they be able to work on parts of our product without having access to our repository. I could think of a hundred more objections, but maybe I'm looking at it the wrong way. Is there a smart way to outsource development, or is it just a bad idea?"
If monkeys can do it, then just outsource it to them . I see a huge lack of perspective just from that idea alone.
Isn't this like asking turkeys to vote for Christmas?
Hi, I am Bob from Texas. I think you are becoming to be unfair to Indian programmers. Indians work diligence at programming trade and have many skills of which may be offered. First place, they speak fluency English. Also, they make for hard work for modest pay. I think you should be finding them to be good workers with code of great significance.
And their US operation is the longest-running joke within the whole industry.
Contrary to the popular belief, there indeed is no God.
My boss says that our new strategy is to use outsourced developers to do the 'monkey work' for us.
I don't think this strategy is successful for producing great software, but given enough time your outsourced developers might write Hamlet.