The free report by Venice Consulting Group outlines the benefits of nearshore development.
The free report titled “The Six Secrets of Nearshore Development ” identifies offshore challenges as
- Time Zone: Differing time zones present management challenges, increased cost of travel, and communication breakdowns.
- Language Barriers: Offshore teams add additional risk via Language Barriers
- Cost Bloating: Offshore projects include costs above and beyond the discounted hourly rate.
- Efficiency: Offshore teams are simply not as efficient as local teams
- Quality: Offshore quality is an issue
- Manageability: Offshore teams are hard to manage.
The report outlines the benefits of nearshore development and defines “The Nearshore Hybrid Model ” as a real solution, which includes
- working with programmers in the same time zone,
- language and cultural practices
- true cost management
- efficiency, quality and manageability