outsource software development for the right reasons
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When outsourcing software decelopment, don't do it just to save costs, do it because it is not part of your core businessTRANSCRIPT
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Software development outsourcing
byPortfolioSoftware
“It’s not simply a cost reduction exercise”
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A long time ago in a land far away lived a software developer who was busy night and day
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He toiled long and hard and was as busy as can be but at 5pm he went home for his tea
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Now it’s not a bad thing that he went home to eat but his far away client had their own client to meet.
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When the software was not done and the project delayed the software developer was more than dismayed.
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He worked 10 hour days because he had a family to feed but his far away client was driven by greed
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The far away client told him to work night and day and if he didn’t they would cut half his pay
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So the software developer increased his working day and worked harder and harder to receive his low pay.
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The software developer was getting depressed, the more he worked the less he had rest
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Finally it happened, the developer became ill, but work he did because he had hungry mouths to fill
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On he went, developing was a chore but he continued working until he could work no more
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All worked had stopped and the client started to shout, why has our developer decided to bail out.
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But try as they might, with threats of reduced pay, the software developer could no longer work night and day
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So the client called him up to see what was wrong, but the software developer had for a long time gone.
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He had chosen a new path for a much better life, working 8 hour days to feed his children and wife.
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Now the clients was stuck with no where to go, choosing a local contractor was ever so slow
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But get one they did and the work was complete, but tripled their costs for their own clients demands to meet
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The moral to this story is as simple as can be: low cost, long hours outsourcing is false economy
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Relationships work when both parties agree that supplier and client work with integrity
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So what happened to the software developer how did he fare, he went and worked for PortfolioSoftware.
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He was happy with life and so were his family, because the company he worked for had oodles of integrity