Archive for the ‘Trust in Outsourcing’ Category

You Never Get 100% Control

Tuesday, September 4th, 2007

If you don’t treat your vendor as a trusted partner

Setting aside all the complexity of a proper evaluation, the vendors that are selected to perform offshore software development deliver the best return on investment if they are treated as partners. Actually, the most successful projects we have accomplished had less control and more productive cooperation. On the contrary, the failed projects had the following symptoms of mutual distrust, strain and resulting collapse:

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