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Subject:Re: India - Wave of the Future? From:Dick Margulis <margulis -at- fiam -dot- net> To:Goober Writer <gooberwriter -at- yahoo -dot- com> Date:Tue, 02 Sep 2003 09:42:48 -0400
Here's an interesting data point regarding India. A strategic partner (a
large company you've heard of) is working with us to port our software
to a different platform. Note that this is a working product that is
fully documented. They decided to use their facility in India to do the
coding work. Their developers in India were having a hard slog of it,
because the application is not your basic e-commerce Web site but rather
deals with a variety of business processes this group is unfamiliar
with. Documentation or no documentation, they just didn't get it.
So who did we ship over for a month to get them moving in the right
direction? The head of our documentation group, a techwhirler to the bone.
Goober Writer wrote:
I wouldn't say we're doomed to lose our jobs to India,
per se. There *will* be a continued move there though.
I'd say, look to see our jobs in the US continue to
evolve. I know that I, as a tech writer, am spending
less time writing and more time on project management
and internal projects to streamline processes with
other locations.
Don't fret; evolve.
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