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.
Why Your Offshore Consultancy Team Won’t Talk to You Directly
Everything through the account manager, nobody raises concerns, people disappear mid-sprint. It is not culture. Here is the org chart, the appraisal chain and the utilisation maths behind large-consultancy offshore behaviour, and what an in-house engineer can actually do about it.
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.