I work in IT. We outsource a lot to India. Here's how it has always went down:
1- Discuss project, deadline and payment
2- Project begins
3- Project manager says "It's going well" every day
4- When the first milestone's deadline is near, project manager starts making up excuses like "we are understaffed" "someone is on sick leave, we thought we could make it" "budget too low" "hard to encounter bugs and small errata came up" or what have you
5- Past several weeks down the first milestone's deadline you ask to see progress
6- Project manager sends you sample work, along with a lot of "we tried our best believe me"s
7- What you receive has ABSOLUTELY nothing to do with what was planned. Software is buggy, minimal UX/UI work done, crashes often or plain old doesn't work.
Replace software industry terms with apparel and God help you.
1- Discuss project, deadline and payment
2- Project begins
3- Project manager says "It's going well" every day
4- When the first milestone's deadline is near, project manager starts making up excuses like "we are understaffed" "someone is on sick leave, we thought we could make it" "budget too low" "hard to encounter bugs and small errata came up" or what have you
5- Past several weeks down the first milestone's deadline you ask to see progress
6- Project manager sends you sample work, along with a lot of "we tried our best believe me"s
7- What you receive has ABSOLUTELY nothing to do with what was planned. Software is buggy, minimal UX/UI work done, crashes often or plain old doesn't work.
Replace software industry terms with apparel and God help you.
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