Seen this cartoon…it is very familiar to those in IT.

Given the huge divide between the onsite and offshore resources this inevitably happens on every other project if not every project. sometimes it applies on the whole, while at times it applies to portions of the project or work packets delivered. Keeping both sides- onsite and offshore, the vendor and the client on the same page takes a lot of skills, leadership, crisp reporting, keeping communication channels open, utilizing the available collaboration tools and fixing accountability and responsibility where it belongs.

Dont wait for things to cascade towards delivering a wrong product. it will be the case of Operation successful – Patient dead or Project complete and success but client tosses it out of the window since it didn’t meet his expectations he set before you began the project.