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Regular_John · 01-28-2012, 12:49 PM

I can only speak from my experience with outsourced web development. So this may not be of a ton of help.

There are some obvious pros:
- Cost savings
- Send something out at 5:00pm, see draft at 9:00am the next day

Cons
- Communication/schedule (eg: need to speak to some one but it's 2:00am)
- More back & forth/drafts needed

As I said this was my experience with web development, you got about 80% of the work done up to par, but the last 20% needed hands on polishing by the regular team. Now if your saving a ton on the 80% then it might be worth it. But in my experience the fantasy of "get the same job done for 1/10th of the cost" doesn't quite pan out.

01-28-2012, 12:49 PM	#2
Regular_John First Line Centre Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Calgary Exp:	I can only speak from my experience with outsourced web development. So this may not be of a ton of help. There are some obvious pros: - Cost savings - Send something out at 5:00pm, see draft at 9:00am the next day Cons - Communication/schedule (eg: need to speak to some one but it's 2:00am) - More back & forth/drafts needed As I said this was my experience with web development, you got about 80% of the work done up to par, but the last 20% needed hands on polishing by the regular team. Now if your saving a ton on the 80% then it might be worth it. But in my experience the fantasy of "get the same job done for 1/10th of the cost" doesn't quite pan out. Last edited by Regular_John; 01-29-2012 at 10:03 AM.