We often get CEO’s coming to us saying we need to get started outsourcing offshore, we need to have an offshore strategy, but my VP of engineering is not onboard with it, can you convince him or her.
I would love to be able to say, “Yes, we can do this!”, we will push through your strategy even if they do not want it to happen. However, if they are responsible for delivering a product, and they do not want to do part or all of it offshore, it is not going to happen. If your engineering team is putting out all the new features your client’s want, answering all of your client’s needs, continually helping your company add revenue, beating your competitors out the door with new features, and all within your existing budget, you don’t have anything to worry about. But if they are not, you had better be very worried about the reasons they are giving you for not offshoring and for not putting your development budget to better use.
Over the next nine days I will give you one reason a day that your VP of Engineering will give for why you can’t outsource offshore, and what you can do in order to determine if it is a real reason or an excuse.