That's kind of why I'm here...except the fellows in India are smart enough
to host the site themselves and won't give us the files. So, what we're
doing is getting close to what we want and then...the crew here is supposed
to replicate it. yay. Cheap remote labor vs Cheap local labor.
On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 11:19 AM, B. Estrade <estrabd@gmail.com> wrote:
> That's a problem no matter what. The best way I've seen this handled
> is you contract out some cheap PHP programmer overseas and give some
> general requirements. You iterate back and forth, all the while you
> get closer to knowing what YOU truly want. Then when it's "good
> enough", you turn it over to someone who works for you in your office
> to polish it up.
>
> I'm not saying it's right, but in some ways the right way to treat
> cheap remote labor.
>
> Brett
>
> On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 11:10:42AM -0500, Clint Billedeaux wrote:
> > I wasn't trying to instigate a racial thing, so let's not slip on that
> > banana peel.
> >
> > The issue for me is the language barrier with the people my company has
> been
> > working with for over a year. It takes a lot of emailing back and forth
> > just to establish what part of the website we're talking about. Forget
> > explaining exactly what we want done. That's usually a process of saying
> > what we want and correcting what we think they're saying back to us until
> > they say something that makes sense to us.
> >
> > It usually leaves us with less than what we hoped for and no idea how to
> ask
> > for it differently. I'm pretty sure it's cost us plenty in lost time and
> > business, let alone what's been paid to the programmers for a product
> that
> > is not user friendly...for our customers or us.
> >
> > --clint
>
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