Risks of Out-sourced and Off-shored Projects

There is an ACM paper that discusses these risks @ www.tinyurl.com/5wfzua.

The Top 10 Risks are:

1. Lack of top management commitment
2. Original set of requirements is miscommunicated
3. Language barriers in project communication
4. Inadequate user involvement
5. Lack of offshore project management know-how by client
6. Failure to manage end-user expectations
7. Poor change controls
8. Lack of business known-how by offshore teams
9. Lack of required technical know-how by offshore team
10. Failure to consider all costs