Project management becomes so much more complicated when contracts get involved. If nothing else, it seems to cause so many more project managers (or people who call themselves project managers) to pop out of the woodwork. This should be a good thing, but it can also be an unhelpful complication.
Outsourcing vendors make lots of promises around the cost savings and productivity improvements they can deliver. Are the benefits really that good?
If you are chiefly looking to utilize outsourcing to save money, don’t be surprised by how much it may cost you to get the talent you need. Here are some of the expenses you may need to swallow in your efforts…
There are many reasons and benefits from outsourcing work. Here are some of the top reasons for looking outside of your organization for expertise and assistance in executing projects.
Like all complicated issues, outsourcing has valid pros and cons. There is no universal right answer or way, only tradeoffs that must be weighed and balanced in context to an organization’s own needs and circumstances.
For more than 20 years, the idea of outsourcing work to low-cost countries has been the project manager’s go-to option for extra resources. That’s no longer so. We now need to make more complex resourcing decisions that may ultimately give PMs greater flexibility.
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