Top 10 Secrets to Agile Offshoring Success
Thinking about getting started with an Agile offshoring project? Here are 10 tips to make Agile offshoring success
- Make sure there is a cultural fit between onshore and offshore teams to facilitate teamwork and communication
- Minimize time zone differences between client and offshore team to support communication
- Define clear business requirements, aims, and objectives so everyone understands the desired functionality and timeline(s)
- Identify clear point(s) of contact for the client and offshore team so there is always a go to personal for removing obstacles and answering questions in a timely fashion so the team can keep on schedule
- Bring some offshore team members on site at project kickoff so they can develop a better understand of your project and build relationships with key staff on site
- Build in daily communication between the team and on site contacts to support transparency and issue resolution
- Plan out your acceptance process and definition of “complete” to ensure everyone is operating under the same expectations
- Have a continuity and succession plan so the project is successfully transitioned to the client
- Use time and materials contracts, not fixed price to allow for evolving business demands
- Consider a hybrid onshore-offshore model where outsourced teams are composed of members on site (or onshore) and offshore
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