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Contractors, Outsourcing and Organic Teams: How to Avoid the Babel Tower Effect

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The Babel Tower.
Yep, definitely the Babel Tower. That’s what I thought and it was no surprise.

One development team located in India, another QA team based in East Europe, two more groups in Israel and on top of that – a few contractors who have never worked together… Could a group of about 30 people, scattered over half a globe, create a working product within less than a year?

As always, the answer would be “It depends”.

In this post, I talk about what I learned while managing a project, lacking resources and knowledge, which turned to be a success thanks to hiring the right contractors, and working with an outsourcing team. Continue reading