Comments on: 31 Risk In Offshore IT Outsourcing Contracts: Or Buying Promises http://www.margretjons.com/how-to-make-money-online/31-risk-in-offshore-it-outsourcing-contracts-or-buying-promises/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=31-risk-in-offshore-it-outsourcing-contracts-or-buying-promises How to Make Money Online Sun, 18 Dec 2011 06:25:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: PetersOpinion http://www.margretjons.com/how-to-make-money-online/31-risk-in-offshore-it-outsourcing-contracts-or-buying-promises/comment-page-1/#comment-4101 PetersOpinion Sat, 04 Jul 2009 17:15:08 +0000 http://www.margretjons.com/how-to-make-money-online/31-risk-in-offshore-it-outsourcing-contracts-or-buying-promises/#comment-4101 I fully agree that it is almost impossible to cover all these items with a contract. I even wouldn't like to try. Some of the items above can be checked and are strictly legal. But furthermore in my opinion outsourcing, whether on-, near- or offshore, has to do a lot with trust. If you don't know if you can trust the other, better don't sign a contract. I wrote a blog post about the need of trust, feel free to read: http://bit.ly/pjiG. The main question is how to gain trust .... First of all I would advice to check the portfolio of the provider, request for a reference and phone this reference, have several talks with the provider (in person, or if not possible by Skype). If your feeling is still ok, you can continue. Our approach is to start with a small project to get used to each other. In this way you can start building trust. Because we shouldn't forget that trust has to come from both sides. Also the provider should be able to trust the client. If possible we invite our potential clients to visit our development location. That's the best way to gain trust, because then you can talk to the developers yourself. And after hours we spent some time together over diner and while having a drink. That gives trust. I fully agree that it is almost impossible to cover all these items with a contract. I even wouldn’t like to try. Some of the items above can be checked and are strictly legal. But furthermore in my opinion outsourcing, whether on-, near- or offshore, has to do a lot with trust. If you don’t know if you can trust the other, better don’t sign a contract. I wrote a blog post about the need of trust, feel free to read: http://bit.ly/pjiG.

The main question is how to gain trust …. First of all I would advice to check the portfolio of the provider, request for a reference and phone this reference, have several talks with the provider (in person, or if not possible by Skype). If your feeling is still ok, you can continue.

Our approach is to start with a small project to get used to each other. In this way you can start building trust. Because we shouldn’t forget that trust has to come from both sides. Also the provider should be able to trust the client.

If possible we invite our potential clients to visit our development location. That’s the best way to gain trust, because then you can talk to the developers yourself. And after hours we spent some time together over diner and while having a drink. That gives trust.

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