How to manage time zone difference with your Offshore Outsourcing Partner in a different time zone.
                     How to manage time zone difference 
with your Offshore Outsourcing Partner
Offshoring to an outsourcing partner 
in different time zone is very popular 
and normal outsourcing practices in 
the IT Industry. The distributed 
software development team bring 
different approaches and several 
new ideas in your development 
project. But at the same time, you 
should need to manage time zone 
differences with your offshore 
outsourcing team to get the best 
results in your Outsourcing project.
Building an offshore collaborative working 
culture with your outsourcing team
A collaborative work culture 
always adds high values and 
help to increases the 
productivity into your offshore 
distributed software 
development team. A healthy 
corporate work environment is 
one of the major element to 
overcome the time zone 
differences and to get a 
successful project deliverable.
Do not need to micromanage your offshore team
Keeping trust in your offshore team is 
one of the key element of successful 
offshore software development. So 
always take care of the 
professionalism of your partner while 
hiring your offshore development 
team. Try to make an outsourcing 
partnership with self-managed and 
highly professional outsourcing 
services provider for your project. 
Make sure that your offshore team 
doesn't spend their valuable time 
ideal or waiting for your approval for 
any task.
Always use trusted software and 
technologies for best results
For a better collaboration with 
your offshore development team. 
you need to use the best 
available software and 
technologies. you can use the 
TeamViewer, GoToMeeting or 
WebEx for web conference and 
demo. The video conference with 
"seeing the face" increase the 
trust factor on both sides. For 
project management, there are 
several tools such as the 
Assembla, Atlassian, Microsoft 
TFS can be very useful. 
Adopt agile software development model
The agile software 
development methodology is 
one of the best models for 
offshore development 
projects. The agile ensures 
excellence across the project 
deliverables. Follow the agile 
scrum framework to meet the 
project backlogs within an 
allocated time frame. 
Communicate and schedule 
meetings with the scrum 
master after one sprint.
Embrace flexible and fair with your 
offshore team
A little bit of disturbance and 
inconvenience is a very 
common thing when you are 
working with an offshore team 
due to time difference. 
Sometimes you might wait 
your outsourcing team for a 
meeting, sometimes your 
team have to stay late due to 
your time zone difference.  Try 
to shift your schedule to 
match some overlapping 
working hours with your 
offshore team.
Organize the training and virtual event 
to exchange cultural differences
To overcome the time differences 
with your offshore team you need 
to Organize the frequent training of 
your offshore team. It will help to 
build better collaboration and a 
strong relationship with your 
distributed development team. To 
overcome cultural differences you 
can organize virtual events to 
exchange and understand each 
other culture.
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