In this project, I am supervising 3 team members in our India office.\u00a0 This week, I am really disappointed by their lack of productivity.\u00a0 I have assigned them some tasks for the week and they are very behind in completing the tasks.\u00a0 It would take me two days to finish those tasks my self and I already take the difference in experience into account and gave them a week of time.\u00a0 It turns out their deliverable is still late, it looks like that will take them another half a week to get to done.\u00a0 It seems I have over estimated their productivity.\u00a0 I am quite unhappy about their work.\u00a0 How can I finish the project on time with these three not performing grunts?<\/p>\n
On a second thought, maybe I should be happy about their lack of productivity.\u00a0 The company should know the gold rule: what you pay is what you get.\u00a0 The Indians get a 1\/4 of my salary, it is quite obvious that they are as good as me.\u00a0 If they cost much less and still work almost as good as me, then I should start worrying about my job.\u00a0 Finish the project on time and drastically cut the cost by outsourcing is a mission impossible to begin with.\u00a0 The deadline is expected to slip.\u00a0 As long as it is not my fault and there is nothing I could do, I cannot be blamed for the failure.\u00a0 Failure is the mother of success, as long as we learn the lesson.\u00a0 I think the lesson I learn from this outsourcing experience is that I should never over estimate the productivity of the Indian contractors, especially the junior guys.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"