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Developer Selection
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There are different horses for different courses, and you have to select right one. Don’t bet on a dark horse. Price is not the only factor to be considered while choosing vendor. Technical skills and experience are equally important.
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Intellectual property rights problems
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A serious concern while going offshore software outsourcing is, intellectual property rights and theft of intellectual property.
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Your existing development team
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This is the most critical problems while your existing IT team works with offshore software development team. Without proper measures it may become a blame game with no advantage to company.
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Offshore development team & management
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People and project management is often what separates a winning combination and failure in offshore software outsourcing.
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Communication
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Because of geographically dispersed team and different time zone, communication is an problems. Company and service provider has to schedule meetings at a compatible time.
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Approach and Methodology
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“When we give a list of things to get done, half would and half would not.” This is what you may hear from many companies having offshore software development team.
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Manpower Turnover of software outsourcing service provider
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With recent boom of software outsourcing in India,programmers are shifting jobs frequently. A newly hired manager or engineer always wants to work his way and may prefer to make change in architecture of development work.
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After project services
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Project may require minor changes or upgradation anytime and fastest turn-around can be provided by those who have developed it.
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Walking away from the deal
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Breaking up is the hardest part to do when project development is at mid stage.
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