If you walked into a store and asked to have someone make you a suit and you agreed on a price of $100 and week’s sewing time, a week later you’d expect to walk back in and be trying on your new suit after parting with a $100 bill (at least in America).

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Outsourcing:  The word American developers love to hate.  There are lots of stories out there about failed efforts that involve offshore development (“offshoring”).  I even have a few myself.  But this post is not about bashing outsourcing countries, the cheapskates that hire them, or the project managers who can’t control the resulting chaos.  This is about understanding why we have such a difficult time making offshore development work before any of those folks get involved.

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