Stop Offshoring
Tuesday, May 18, 2004
A recent eWeek column compared the quality of work performed offshore with the work being done by Americans. There are a couple of quotes that I want to share because they also express my experiences with Indian workers both here and abroad.
In one failed project that had been staffed from that country [India], he found "uniformly atrocious" code with "almost a complete lack of error processing." He said he also found other cardinal errors, such as absence of referential integrity constraints. "There were pieces of code," he reported, "that were so bizarre that I can't even explain how anybody could have written them."
Even if developers make fewer initial errors, poor response to changes in requirements means a longer time to deliver the code that's needed—perhaps longer than the customer can afford to wait.
Do you still think offshoring is a better option??
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