Outsource It!: A NoHoldsBarred Look at the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of Offshoring Tech Projects

If you need to expand your business but not your budget, if your group has an intense but shortterm project, if you dont have the skill set to get a job doneits time to think about outsourcing. Starting from the first step (should you outsource part of your tech work?) to the last (how can you protect your intellectual property?), youll learn everything about setting up projects overseas.Sending your prized assets halfway around the worldor halfway around the countrytakes a lot of courage for technical leads accustomed to doing things themselves. This book is full of reallife examples that show you how outsourcing really works.Learn how to choose your outsourcing destination by defining selection criteria tables and applying weights to them. Youll see how to pick the right vendor and understand why recommendations arent the right way to do it. Then calculate the quality of the code your offshore developers turn in. Youll find out how to adjust your waterfall or agile project for an overseas team, and youll see why outsourcing QA is not always the prudent approach. Your offshore team will never be as productive as your local teamyoull learn why that doesnt always matter. Finally, youll discover how much money youll spend to outsource and how much you can savewhich is sometimes more than youd think and less than youd like.Written by an expert whos seen it all, Outsource It! will help you avoid mistakes and give you the confidence and the skills to take your project wherever it needs to go.