Cheeky "Bob"

daffodil · Post by **daffodil** » 17th Jan, '13, 19:52

Puts a new spin on outsourcing, eh?

http://www.smh.com.au/technology/techno ... 2cuib.html

Kooky · Post by **Kooky** » 17th Jan, '13, 19:59

Love this story! Clever Bob.

Pinklepurr · Post by **Pinklepurr** » 17th Jan, '13, 20:03

Well, not so clever in that he got sacked, but can you imagine how boring his day was?

Fat Bob · Post by **Fat Bob** » 17th Jan, '13, 20:04

Wonder if the company contracted the China firm as out-sources and sacked any more staff?

daffodil · Post by **daffodil** » 17th Jan, '13, 21:13

Bet Bob won't be getting a finders fee though!

Morrolan · Post by **Morrolan** » 18th Jan, '13, 09:49

they should have promoted him: he got quality software developed on time and within budget by a Chinese company. tell me that is not a great IT project manager.

baloo · Post by **baloo** » 18th Jan, '13, 09:58

Morrolan wrote:they should have promoted him: he got quality software developed on time and within budget by a Chinese company. tell me that is not a great IT project manager.

Then he over budgeted.

1st Law of Software Development.
The first 90 percent of the code accounts for the first 90 percent of the development time. The remaining 10 percent of the code accounts for the other 90 percent of the development time.

Morrolan · Post by **Morrolan** » 18th Jan, '13, 13:46

baloo wrote:
Morrolan wrote:they should have promoted him: he got quality software developed on time and within budget by a Chinese company. tell me that is not a great IT project manager.
Then he over budgeted.

1st Law of Software Development.
The first 90 percent of the code accounts for the first 90 percent of the development time. The remaining 10 percent of the code accounts for the other 90 percent of the development time.

according to the articles he never paid more than 50k for the outsourcing, while the company paid him a 'six-figure salary'. i'd say he budgeted quite cleverly...

baloo · Post by **baloo** » 18th Jan, '13, 17:01

Personally, yeah, but if he was smarter he would have made more money, had more spare time, and still be employed.

The guy is an amateur.

IT departments have been running this outsourcing scam for years and the business still believe its legit.

Fat Bob · Post by **Fat Bob** » 18th Jan, '13, 18:08

I say he opened up his company to a minefield of uncontrolled access. What legal agreements were in place with the outsourcing company to prevent any Intellectual Property going missing? Would the IP be solid if out-sourced in this way? What about other security features?

Whole minefield indeed.

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