1) 4 hours of time overlap rule - you need to have overlap of 4 hours between teams
2) Requirements need to be much tighter with outsourcing. Often you need a full BA whereas with some devs you can work without a formal spec but some wireframes etc
No, Troy specifically mentions differing requirements depending on the country that the ousource firm is located in.
>Another pattern I found time and time again when outsourcing to India was that they'd want really detailed documentation. This is always going to be a contentious issue and there are many different views of how much should be done under what circumstances. But more so in India than the other two locations I'll talk about shortly, detail was important to them. There were many occasions where we would make assumptions that a feature requirement clearly implied certain things only to later discover they was deemed "out of scope". Now that can happen in any project in any part of the world, but it was extremely prevalent in India.
> On the plus side for China though, one of their strengths (particularly over India) was the ability to get down to work with minimal documentation.
1) 4 hours of time overlap rule - you need to have overlap of 4 hours between teams
2) Requirements need to be much tighter with outsourcing. Often you need a full BA whereas with some devs you can work without a formal spec but some wireframes etc