Challenges of Outsourcing Development Work
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Summary
Matthias Winkelmann's company outsourced development work to overseas programmers at a lower rate, leading to challenges in communication and technical issues.
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There were a lot of technical issues, and a lot of issues communicating the technical issues, so that job ended up taking quite a bit more than 'only a little bit of time.'
Matthias Winkelmann's company decided to go the ole' outsourcing route and hand off all development work for a fixed-bid project to a certain overseas company. As it turned out, the hourly rate for certain overseas programmers were less than half that of
