Comments on: Three Absolute Requirements for Successful Offshore Application Development, Part 2 http://accurev.com/blog/2007/10/31/three-absolute-requirements-for-successful-offshore-application-development-part-2/ SCM and Agile Software Development Blog Wed, 09 May 2012 07:08:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Three Absolute Requirements for Successful Offshore Application Development - Part 1 « Software Configuration Management http://accurev.com/blog/2007/10/31/three-absolute-requirements-for-successful-offshore-application-development-part-2/comment-page-1/#comment-351 Three Absolute Requirements for Successful Offshore Application Development - Part 1 « Software Configuration Management Fri, 11 Apr 2008 01:27:55 +0000 http://blog.accurev.com/2007/10/31/three-absolute-requirements-for-successful-offshore-application-development-part-2/#comment-351 [...] in Part 2, if you can’t identify the fish at the table, the fish is [...] [...] in Part 2, if you can’t identify the fish at the table, the fish is [...]

]]> By: Lorne Cooper http://accurev.com/blog/2007/10/31/three-absolute-requirements-for-successful-offshore-application-development-part-2/comment-page-1/#comment-350 Lorne Cooper Thu, 01 Nov 2007 17:47:59 +0000 http://blog.accurev.com/2007/10/31/three-absolute-requirements-for-successful-offshore-application-development-part-2/#comment-350 Great story, Mike, and consistent with my experience. Bangalore has rapidly grown to become an amazing, high-tech metropolis, but the tradition of Indian caste system mixed with the English class system remains: the elite are expected to manage, the middle class are expected to conform, and the lower class are treated as though they're invisible. Disclaimer: I recognize that the ~ 100 Indians I've worked with represent 0.0001% of the population. Or as Mark Twain said: All Generalizations Are False, including this one. -ljc- Great story, Mike, and consistent with my experience. Bangalore has rapidly grown to become an amazing, high-tech metropolis, but the tradition of Indian caste system mixed with the English class system remains: the elite are expected to manage, the middle class are expected to conform, and the lower class are treated as though they’re invisible.

Disclaimer: I recognize that the ~ 100 Indians I’ve worked with represent 0.0001% of the population. Or as Mark Twain said: All Generalizations Are False, including this one.

-ljc-

]]> By: Mike http://accurev.com/blog/2007/10/31/three-absolute-requirements-for-successful-offshore-application-development-part-2/comment-page-1/#comment-349 Mike Thu, 01 Nov 2007 17:39:15 +0000 http://blog.accurev.com/2007/10/31/three-absolute-requirements-for-successful-offshore-application-development-part-2/#comment-349 When I went to Bangalore to train some new SCM/Build folks for Accenture there was a call center in the same building. You could easily tell who worked in the call center because they had very good English (it might be better to say they had a western english accent) and very poor attitudes about their job. After talking to the folks I was training for a couple of weeks it was clear why. In the local culture it seems there is a high value placed on adapting to one's circumstances without complaint. What job could be worse than fielding complaints from agitated, privledged Americans all day? You make good points about learning the culture and motivation of anybody you work with. Mike When I went to Bangalore to train some new SCM/Build folks for Accenture there was a call center in the same building. You could easily tell who worked in the call center because they had very good English (it might be better to say they had a western english accent) and very poor attitudes about their job. After talking to the folks I was training for a couple of weeks it was clear why. In the local culture it seems there is a high value placed on adapting to one’s circumstances without complaint. What job could be worse than fielding complaints from agitated, privledged Americans all day? You make good points about learning the culture and motivation of anybody you work with.

Mike

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