Onsite Offshore Model - Comedy or Tragedy

Onsite / Offshore - Comedy or tragedy :)

After being into this onsite and offshore model for almost 5 years, onething which is very consistent across software industry is night outs, either it is onsite or offshore

For folks who wanted to quote saying "Check your estimates,.." just drop off because no one does right estimation and even if right estimates were projected, they were never taken just because you will  never win the project then.

Now let us get on to the core on what happens at offshore and onsite

Offshore - there are two categories, one who is over dedicated and one totally disconnected and never cares

Now let us move step down again,

Offshore Dedicated guys : only reason why project runs and business is still on :), he never cares about

whether it is a holiday or not, mostly people who are away from home - so basically no one to care about, no one to worry whether he is reaching home at right time or not. They start with great enthusiasm, when the night outs starts prolonging, then comes a saturation, then frustration..

Benefits of being dedicated: probably if he is lucky enough, he might get awarded (not monitory wise), worst case he might get promoted with a condition (that he will need work more - LOL- come on he is already not going home), there is one more so called benefit (he will be shown a maya - that he will be sent to onsite [lol - unfortunately he does not know the truth behind it - it is next level to hell])

Disconnected folks - they can be categorized as those who are already committed (always on phone calls), verge of getting married or he / she have started looking out for other jobs. Irrespective of whether they work or not, they know how to demand during appraisals

Benefits of bring disconnected: simple they don’t toil themselves, when they are screwed up in the appraisal, the simple bulls eye request is "release" - so move out of it and start doing the same stuff in other project.

So now here starts the "Onsite" part of it.

Onsite - Most of the cases, he / she sits back commanding the offshore team tracking to know whether the issue is sorted out or not, they never look into it :). I don’t know how it starts that people usually get into a mentality of passing it to team rather than working it out.

Again - people does not want to purposely work or he does not know to work on it.

Project will be at its high pressure, offshore will be literally burning, but this guy never cares - just see what he doing - he will be doing a room share calculation on how much he need to give to others, calculating money on how much he spent @ McDonald’s.

This act of cunningness gets on them so much though they were so generous when they lived in India

There are still people who still contribute a lot and because of them every project survives - they actually never care on what's coming in, all that counts is true passion..

Whatever be it – every project goes on! J

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