The document outlines tips for avoiding outsourcing disasters, including sharing project objectives with outsourced teams, welcoming bad news to avoid isolation, hiring technical auditors to review code quality and documentation, automating deployments, and establishing fine-grained reward and punishment mechanisms based on micro-milestones.

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Yegor Bugayenko
How To Avoid
Outsourcing Disaster?

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Lessons.7

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Why me?
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Don’t Expect Friendship.
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The End
The Invoice
vs.
You
We

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When You Succeed,
We Fail.

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Fixed-Price Means War.

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Time-and-Material
Means You Lose.

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$15 $50/hr

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Google Maps

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Incremental Billing.
To Do
With Micro Milestones.

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Real
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Share Your Objectives.
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ASAP Is Not a Deadline.

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You Are a Cash Cow.

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“Why?”
To Do

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Welcome Bad News.
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Don’t Isolate Yourself by
Expecting Good News Only.

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Project Objectives
vs.
Your Emotions

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Risk List.
To Do

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Be Pessimistic.
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“You are the professionals,
I trust you, do it right!”

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Verify Earlier.
To Do

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Hire Tech Auditors.
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Quality of code
CI/CD
Test coverage
Test reports
DB Schema
Logs
Stats

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Start Immediately.
From the First Day of the Project.

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Review Regularly.
At Least Once a Month.

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Invite Experts Only.
Very Expensive Ones.

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Rotate Reviewers.

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Review Everything.
Not Only the Source Code.

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Expect Criticism.

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Prohibit Discussions.
Making the Reviewer Happy Is Not the Goal.

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Pay For Bugs.
Not For the Time.

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Be Honest.
About the Goals of the Process.

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Follow Up.

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Automate Deployment.
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Deploy In One Click.
From Your Computer.

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Deploy Once a Week.
To Do

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Reward and Punish.
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Fine-Grained Mechanism.
To Do
Micro-Milestone Based.

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