{"id":1024,"date":"2008-05-28T16:41:15","date_gmt":"2008-05-28T16:41:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/svapm.org\/2008\/05\/28\/are-your-programmers-dynamic-or-transactional\/"},"modified":"2019-08-07T14:35:07","modified_gmt":"2019-08-07T21:35:07","slug":"are-your-programmers-dynamic-or-transactional","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/svapm.org\/?p=1024","title":{"rendered":"Are Your Programmers Dynamic or Transactional?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Offshoring of software development is written off<\/strong> by some as not workable. Many have shared offshoring nightmares and horror stories<\/a> in articles and blog postings. A recent survey<\/a> says small company CIOs say they have little interest in increasing their offshore outsourcing in 2008. And many have stopped outsourcing altogether because of management challenges.<\/p>\n

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94% Are Not Offshoring<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"More...\"\"Had<\/strong><\/p>\n

59% That Did Had Challenges<\/strong><\/p>\n

One major reason for not offshoring<\/strong> is the perceived<\/em> poor quality of the programmers you encounter offshore. I said “perceived” quality because clearly not all offshore programmers are bad. But it seems enough are bad to create a really rotten impression.<\/p>\n\n\n
Back in 2005 McKinsey published<\/strong> a study that said only a small percentage (10% to 25%) of the huge number of IT professionals graduating from university in India and China are “suitable for multinational engagements”. I quoted the McKinsey report in Chapter 11: The Future of Global Software Development<\/a> of Software without Borders<\/em> but at the time I was not sure of the reason so many programmers are unsuitable.<\/td>\n\"http:\/\/accelerance.com\/images\/email\/software_without_borders.jpg\"<\/strong><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

Now a <\/strong>2007 study from Duke University<\/strong><\/a> has dug deeper into the quality of engineering graduates in the U.S., India and China. It describes that many engineers graduating in India and China are comparable only to technicians graduating from two or three year technical schools here in the U.S. and are NOT at the same level as an engineer graduating with a Bachelors degree from an American four-year university.<\/p>\n

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Independent of the type of college degree<\/strong> or the country where it was earned, the study classifies software engineers as either being dynamic<\/em> or transactional<\/em>:<\/p>\n

Dynamic Engineers (10% to 20%)<\/strong><\/p>\n