Category Archives: Offshoring

Is offshoring creating or destroying jobs? Is it good or bad?Creërt offshoring banen of vernietigt ze deze juist? Is het goed of slecht?Skapar eller förstör offshoring arbetsmöjligheter? Är det bra eller dåligt?Erschafft oder zerstört Offshoring Jobs? Ist es gut oder schlecht?

  I read and talk a lot about offshoring and global staffing and one discussion frequently pops up: is it good or bad to hire people from India? Does it destroy jobs in my home country? There is quite some …

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Oral versus written communication in offshoring

People who engage in offshoring, have a natural, human inclination to ‘just start communicating’. My experience has made me think a lot about the most effective way of communicating in an offshoring context. If you are involved in managing an …

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Social Networks in OffshoringSociale Netwerken in offshoringSocial Networks in OffshoringSoziale Netzwerke beim Offshoring

Offshore initiatives offer many benefits, particularly on the financial side, and also come with several risks.  As with any major initiative, developing a plan to mitigate the risks is essential.  A source of risk that is seldom considered, however, is …

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Does offshoring success depend on the ‘shore’ or the people?Hangt het success van offshoring af van de ‘shore’ of van de mensen?Does offshoring success depend on the ‘shore’ or the people?Hängt der Erfolg von Offshoring von dem “Shore” oder von den Leuten ab??

A friend sent me this Dilbert illustration; I had to study it several times to conclude what’s the main message to me. You could interpret it in many ways; for me it drives home one thing: the success of offshoring depends on people, not on ‘bestshore, nearshore, rightshore, offshore or farshore’. The offshoring industry has come up with many confusing definitions to describe a simple thing: hiring people from another country to do a project or (parts of) a process. (For an interesting thought article on terminology, read this article of Gavin Bowden-Hall).

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Implementing an effective software development process: Agile, Scrum, CMMI and where to start

The common way of organizing software projects in most software firms is (or was) the waterfall method. Most firms don’t choose this process deliberately, but grow into it, because it’s a natural human way to get organized. It has its …

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