offshoring stabilities and instabilities ...

the main reason for offshoring seems to be (1) more return for the money and (2) an endless reservoir of skilled developers. seeting up an offshore partnership involves:

• decide what to offshore, and depending on that,
  
• choose a process for creating and signing off deliveries
  
• choose technologies used to cooperate
• and finally, contractual details in case of non-delivery (time, quality).
  

this applies for partnering with a typical offshore company as well as for setting up a branch in an offshore country.

a few obstacles need to be considered:

• people might move on to their next career step within 9 months.
• this may pose special pressure on efficient knowledge transfer, and, in addition with
  
• beeing remote, pose challenges in team-building,
• and, mainly from a legal-, data- and knowledge protection pov, access rights and cooperation zones need special attention.
  

In the next weeks we will elaborate these topics a little bit.