This is my favorite offshoring Best Practice. Be Flexible!
When will you find the need to be flexible? During all of the times that I mentioned in the previous 8 Best Offshoring Practices. You will have to be flexible with the times of day you work, with the type of work you do offshore versus on-shore, with the type of communication methodologies you will have to be flexible (plus have a few options prepared in case the first one falls through).
In the end working offshore should not mean so many differences that the practice of completing a software development project is unrecognizable. Much of the process will be familiar to you; at first it may seem just not as comfortable due to the different times of day you find yourself working, or the means you are using to communicate (web conference tool) versus face-to-face, etc. But just like anything else, the more you do it, and that means every day, the more used to it you become and the more flexible you are the more you will find the method that works right for you, for your projects and for your company.