You inherited an offshore dev team that misses everything while the status deck stays green. Four different causes look identical from the outside, and each has a different fix. The week-by-week turnaround playbook: the Week 0 tests that tell them apart, the metrics that beat the status report, and the go/no-go call in Week 6.
How to Manage an Offshore Team in India After Losing Yours
Your team was outsourced and you now manage the offshore replacement. The grief is real, and so is the risk: the process knowledge walked out with your old staff. What to ask in week one, a documentation template that captures judgement calls, how to tier review so you stop being the bottleneck, and the honest IST overlap arithmetic.
Why Offshore Development Quality Is So Bad (It’s the Contract)
Bad offshore code is a rational output of fixed-bid contracts, pyramid staffing and 24-hour question latency, not of nationality. What the attrition and distributed-team research actually shows, and the seven things an engineering manager can change.