How many resources we need to allocate to manage an offshore outsourcing project?
Ans: It depends on the size and complexity of the project. In most situations one of your project managers (or product managers) with a reasonable knowledge of the system can manage an offshore outsourcing team well. Your project manager works either with G&Gs US based project manager or directly with our India based project lead. It is assumed that your project manager has a good access to your in-house programmers and designers, and he/she is available to the offshore team as needed. • How do we manage or juggle with the time difference in your offshore teams location? Is there any overlap? Ans: Our offshore team in India works with a good overlap with your working hours. Based on your location in the US, this overlap may be 2-4 hours. If you are based in Europe this overlap may be even substantial. In any case we try to address this time overlap issue with project managers who bridge the communication during most of your working hours. • For a typical project, how many programmers d
