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By: offshore

offshore — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 09:47:26 +0000

Yeah that sucks, but having been involved in at least 3 off-shore projects not just with Indian teams but also Eastern European I can say that there are still a lot of hurdles, and most often the issue is poor project management and little or no QA. In most cases if they just hired a US project manager it would help tremendously.

By: jonathan peterson

jonathan peterson — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 20:21:08 +0000

I hate to dogpile someone who’s had bad things happen. But software sales people LIE. Caveat Emptor.

- If you’ve been told a feature exists but haven’t seen it, it DOESN’T.
- If you’ve seen demo’ed but not USED it, it’s a UI prototype that has no functionality.
- If you’ve used it in a demo environment, it doesn’t exists in the production product
- If it IS in the production product, it is unstable and doesn’t scale.

The CEO of a technology company should KNOW that. Charles appears to have bet the company without doing any technology due diligence or having a fallback technology plan.