Offshore Development Companies are really good?

Hello guys,

I just like to know that really you feel that offshore software development companies are doing good. You get what you are expecting from them in terms of satisfaction level.

please respond....

 

Guess it depends what you mean by "offshore" (especially as you dont say where you are to know what is considered offshore to you. As we are UK based and most of our clients are USA based we are "offshore" but as our costs are on average higher than the USA (due to poor exchange rate) we dont fall into what most mean by offshoring.

If you are talking about your more typical "india"/ "china" etc I have to say that experience has been exceptionally mixed and it would really come down to what you want. My biggest gripe is that they will say nothing is a problem even if it is beyond their skill sets or they cannot deliver on it.

The majority of the code has done what it is supposed to have and for a normal sized site would have been fine but in reality was exceptionally inefficient and as the site grew would have caused issues.

Language is less of a problem than most imagine it will be (other than my telephone but that is simply an accent thing) but can mean things need to be explained a few more times/ put more simply than you would have need for a native english speaker.

Controls are generally poor... ok if you want to slip things through, constantly change the scope etc but very difficult to argue if things have been delivered as requested and begs questions over thoroughness of testing etc.

Over all, if you want something done cheap 'n' cheerful then use them. If you want something robust and controlled then you will need to spend a hell of a lot of time finding the right people. My previous employer (a multi-national bank) had a development centre in India (own employees) and they still had problems enforcing proper practices even though they were literally standing over them (project managers would often fly over to india for the critical parts of the projects etc)

 

depends on the company. good to take risks and let me mention.. they are low cost resources as well..

 

Thanks to all,

My offshore outsourcing means India. I really dont convinced with "AstarothSolutions", as "wisdomtool" said that good one & bad one both are present in the market. If the clients feel that Indian skills are not that enough to satisfy their needs then the Outsourcing business which is repidly increasing in Indian market will not happened.

Most of the US infect UK companies are coming to India with their projects, their putting up a large amount of money in India market & setting up their own centers for development.

"Joseph.oliver88" is correct offshore outsourcing is much cheaper.

 

Almost proof in point.... Wisdomtool strongly agreed with me but you said that he was correct and I was wrong... unfortunately miss understanding the language is one of the risks. Whilst I have the utmost respect for the guys as I can speak only english where as they can often speak hindi, english plus other languages the risk remains of dealing with someone with a different first language that miss understanding of meanings will occur.

As I said, my previous employer set up a development centre in India with circa 500 programmers/ testers etc. The problem was that 8 years after setting it up we project managers were still having to go over to india to ensure things were done right. The project managers were a great bunch of guys but as in their own words werent used to the rigorous process of documentation, change control etc that we required they used.

 

the majority are horrible do not do it if you can afford it. They will say yes to anything for your money.