Software Outsouricng Experience
This Blog is intended to help people like me who have been burnt too many times trying to outsource software projects to so called independent software contractors…. beware. Please contribute your experiences, so that we can all learn from each others experiences.
You may think that you are getting a fantastic deal as they offer you a rock bottom rate and take a small upfront fee. I have been burnt 4 times… as I am a trusting person so I always wanted to give each independent guy a fair chance. But they all take a small advance payment. Then they promise to deliver the solution in a specified period of time. Once they get closer to the delivery date, you usually cant get through to there phones as they avoid your calls. Invariably you get through to them days later at which point you are desparate for your software and hence cautious not to upset them. The Independent contractor then demands more funds, or else threatening not to release the software. So you pay him a further 40% – 50%. With only 25% left to pay him the Contractor is now in the driving seat. He will deliver you the software at this stage, I gurantee you it will be substanded. The contractor will now say that your change requests are out of scope and demand more funds. This has been the story of my life. At this stage I usually agreed to pay them more…. but this never resolved the issue. My advise is tell him to piss off… Dont outsource software to Independent Contractors…. Since they dont represent a company they find it easier to let you down…They dont really care about reputation… just cash in hand…. The 4 projects I outsourced were to Independent contractors based in India.
I also do operate a few blogs of my own and I have had alot of criticism on my comments that I am misleading the readers and that my experience is only specifically with Independent contractors and this experience is not the case with companies. I think this is very clear from my writings. So if this is not clear I apologize.
One of my readers have commented that he has had a great experience in Sri Lanka. He mentions that he worked with a company called Efutures private limited based in Colombo. URL www.efuturesworld.com He comments that he has had a great experience outsourcing Java, .Net and PHP work to them. I personally dont know but he spoke very highly of them
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