Managing Offshore Development

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Managing Offshore Development

• Ronnachai Uckara
• MBA 731

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What is it?

• Offshore programming
• (also offshore software development, offshore
  software RD) is provision of Software
  development services by an external supplier
  positioned in a country that is geographically
  remote from the client enterprise (a type of
  Offshore Outsourcing).

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Why offshore?

• Wages are much lower is countries like India and
  Russia in comparison with US and Western Europe.
• Its the availability of talent. People are well
  educated in offshore software development
  countries and are still available.
• A very strong home-grown IT sector that is
  receiving strong government support.

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Offshore center

• India, China, and Russia are the three leading
  countries that currently control the offshore
  programming market.
• Other offshore software development destinations
  include Pakistan, Vietnam, Philippines, Israel,
  Romania, Republic of Ireland, Eastern Europe
  (Ukraine, Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary)

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How to manage offshore

• Make sure the low labor cost is really lower
• Assess the programmers' skills realistically
• Have solid specifications
• Make sure the project plan is very, very detailed
  

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How to manage offshore

• Make sure status reporting is unambiguous
• Don't overlook language skills
• Look at work samples

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Offshore example ANM

• ANM's portfolio of offshore services comprises of
  offshore software development for product and
  solutions companies in the Financial, messaging,
  Travel, E-Com based development arena.

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Offshore example ANM

• Offshore Development Infrastructure
• Establishing Virtual Private Network (VPN) with
  24 hour connectivity
• Establishing of a Project Control Office (PCO)
• Inter office communication methodology
• Centralized CVS Access
• Tools for Offshore Management
• Database and QA Servers
• Legal Employees Contracts
• Admin Help desk for Travel and hotel bookings

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Global Delivery Model
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Offshore Transition Process
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Online Resource Control Manager
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Reference

• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Offshore_programming
• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Offshore_outsourcing
• http//www.russoft.org/docs/?doc1123
• http//www.anmsoft.com/htm/offshore_development_ce
  nter.htm
• http//www.idinews.com/offshore.html