Best Practices for Outsourcing
- Choose product engineering specialist as outsourcer
- Treat the relationship as a partnership than as a client-vendor relationship. Treat the outsourcing team members as your own employees
- Choose your partner using a pilot project evaluation rather than from an RFP process
- Hire for the job
- Delegate the project management
- Focus on the team’s ability to deliver
- Ensure that the U.S. team begins following some engineering processes
- Insist on weekly project meetings and monthly business review meetings
- Incorporate a certain resource slack in the overall project budget
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