The problem I've had with outsourcing is the treating of programmers like bodies. It seems like just when I've developed a good rapport with our programmers they are gone. Months of development knowledge, API knowledge, etc are right out the door.
My job requires me to train my replacement on our APIs if I leave. Over there, I guess it's not the same. When a programmer leaves I'm not given any notice. Just a new contact, who I then have to give the documentation, explain the work, and guide with the work. And this has happened to me 3 times in the last year.
Other than that, the guys are fantastic and good at their job.
Very few companies grasp the idea of intellectual capital. There is an amazing amount of value in a developer that knows a codebase backwards and forwards. Hard to monetize that though.
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The problem I've had with outsourcing is the treating of programmers like bodies. It seems like just when I've developed a good rapport with our programmers they are gone. Months of development knowledge, API knowledge, etc are right out the door.
My job requires me to train my replacement on our APIs if I leave. Over there, I guess it's not the same. When a programmer leaves I'm not given any notice. Just a new contact, who I then have to give the documentation, explain the work, and guide with the work. And this has happened to me 3 times in the last year.
Other than that, the guys are fantastic and good at their job.
Very few companies grasp the idea of intellectual capital. There is an amazing amount of value in a developer that knows a codebase backwards and forwards. Hard to monetize that though.