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You guys. We all know you are all super intelligent and well educated, but this is exactly the problem that comes with being too smart. You make things a bit more complicated. Outsourcing = letting a third party handle a piece of your production. Offshore = outside defined geographical limits. The expression is offshore outsourcing.


"... this is exactly the problem that comes with being too smart. You make things a bit more complicated. Outsourcing = letting a third party handle a piece of your production. ..."

Your mistake is equating development to production. Making software is difficult because designing upfront and then expecting the result to reflect "what users want" is an oxymoron. Instead think "just-in-time" design and creation of a software product in very close communication with users.

  '... total outsourcing leads to delayed and inferior products due to human factors and mis-communication ...'  
The real "value add" here is being able to "optomise employee face-time" with your "unit profit generators" (users) through "space-time" savings of costs per "CSM" (cubicle square meterage), delivering superior "user expectations".

Outsourcing in this context is just another business fad. Feel free to insert your own business "Buzz words" in place of place of the ones inserted.


this is exactly what I am talking about. Thank you for the scientific expose.


"... scientific expose ..."

It's not scientific it's empirical observation and hardly an expose.


Yay, more politics.




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