IT outsourcing project that proves that people matter

I believe that only particular people or particular person matters. If we have a problem it’s not enough just to find a specialist with appropriate level of qualification. I want to say that specialists with the same level of qualification will achieve different results. For sure education and experience is very important. But their attitude to their job is much more important!

I faced this situation many times in my life and the last time was last month. I was responsible for an IT project in my company and was asked to find a web development outsourcing company to do some Java programming. I turned to 5 companies and their proposals were almost the same. Each company agreed to do that Java programming for our money and the time schedule was almost the same. But only in one of than software development companies I was asked about our business goals for that IT project. But it’s not the end. After my information the project manager of that web development company made a survey and showed us facts proving that our IT project needs some changes. He did this for free and even more. He said that after that changes my company will need less Java programming! He proposed us the variant that was good only for us but bad for their web development business.

I’m really surprised with this fact and one more time realized that not companies or specialists impact the history but common people with their attitude to what they do…