Q.
Why Outsource Development Engineering?
A.
The science, methodologies and management of software engineering
have advanced to where these disciples are routinely taught in
computer science departments at universities around the world.
The best and the brightest in countries such as India and China
are electing software engineering as a career. As a consequence,
a cadre of talented and well-trained software engineers are flowing
from outstanding universities of India and China. This pool of
talent provides the backdrop for establishing offshore development
engineering. Add to this advances in low-cost telecommunications
and data networking provides a communications framework for offshore
team and project management.
A
U.S. high-tech company with its sophisticated understanding of
its markets develops product concepts and requirements to satisfy
market needs. Engineering turns these requirements into design
specifications and product architecture. After which comes product
execution, which is the labor-intensive phase of product development.
This is where low-cost offshore development engineering can play
a key role in out engineering your competition.
At
this time, offshore development engineering offers lower cost
development. In the future offshore engineering will offer access
to engineering talent not available in the U.S. since offshore
universities are graduating more engineers (In 2002, China graduated
220,000 engineers compared to U.S. 60,000).
Having
development engineering in China provides inroads to the China
market and other Asian markets. This may come by way of product
localization, or product support to Asian customers.
In
summary, software development techniques are well understood and
taught in leading universities in China. Modern high-tech products
with ever increasing demands for advanced features and functionality
need all the more software engineers to fulfill product requirements.
With the high cost of U.S. engineering, it is necessary to take
advantage of low-cost, highly talented offshore engineering, and
in this way out engineer your competition.
Q.
Why China?
A.
China has a wealth of engineering resources. With 1.3B people,
17M in college, 37% in Engineering - 220,000 bachelor's degrees
in engineering were awarded in 2002, compared with 60,000 in the
United States.
Photo: Jian Shuo Wang, Shanghai,
China
Q.
Why Choose China Instead of India?
A.
China is more convenient. The time difference is 9 hours different
from PST, so meetings can be held during normal business hours
on both sides - a 5pm PST meeting is an 8am meeting in China.
And flying to China entails a non-stop relatively short flight
from the West Coast.
Another reason to choose China is that China has modern, cosmopolitan
cities and better infrastructure: telecommunications, data connections,
power, transportation, education, plus government support in the
form of economic zones, incentives, and lower taxes.
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