David Messinger

Why are contract outsourcing and offshore development failing to deliver the expected benefit of lower costs and increased end-user satisfaction to enterprise software development users? It seems that lower rates per hour and better management of human resources are not enough to overcome the problems associated with the central issue of lack of engineering discipline. In most other industries, real cost savings matched with increased productivity that translate into fundamentally lower production costs have been the result of process and manufacturing reengineering, not simply of lowering labor input costs. The cost of building a car has actually declined in real dollars over the last 20 years, even as average hourly pay has increased. By and large, this has not been t... (more)