One of the most frustrating aspects of WordPress web development is working with offshore teams. It shouldn’t be so hard, but it is.
The number one issue is: CULTURE!
Web developers in India, Ukraine, Brazil, and parts of Eastern Europe have vastly different approaches to how they design and build the website you want and need. They’ve all learned different ways of doing things and will apply what they know, which might work for them, but not for anyone else coming on board that doesn’t have a handle on how they did what they’ve done.
I’ve worked with India-based developers for many years. What I’ve come to learn is that they go to school to learn web development, but they don’t go to school to learn how to solve problems. And, they say “yes” an awful lot but yes means they can try, not yes, they can do. Maybe with experience, they will, but like any junior developer anywhere, they will just build what they think you want in the only way they know how without thinking through the impact down the road.
For example, a few years ago, I needed my India team to build a website with a header and footer in a page builder called Divi. The page builder has a process for this. But what did my developers do? They custom-coded the header and the footer. This was before I learned how to do it in Divi myself.
Years later, once I had to go in and fix something, I couldn’t.
Why?
Because the way they built it with custom code was complicated, and they left me with no documentation on how they did it.
Back then, I didn’t know what I know now. I paid far more for what I needed because I didn’t know how to instruct them otherwise. And, when I finally found out years later, I’d stopped working with them because of these mishaps, so I had no recourse but to rebuild it all myself.
That’s right – a non-developer with product development experience and a deep understanding of WordPress fixed it all in under an hour. I can’t remember how much time it took them all those years ago, but it certainly wasn’t an hour.
Are you struggling with a WordPress project that you can’t seem to wrap your head around? Are you finding it hard to work with the offshore team that pitched you on being able to do anything you ask for without explaining how or why they’re going to do it that way?
If you need a coach to walk you through aspects of your web development project, I’m happy to be there for you. Schedule time with me to discuss your project. Let’s have a conversation about where you are and where you need to go, then start to right the wrongs that you may be experiencing.
As a WordPress coach, consultant, and trainer, I’ve worked with designers, developers, project managers, email marketers, social media managers, and many other roles on hundreds of projects. Let’s connect so I can assist you with working through your challenging website development roadblocks.
The number one issue is: CULTURE!
Web developers in India, Ukraine, Brazil, and parts of Eastern Europe have vastly different approaches to how they design and build the website you want and need. They’ve all learned different ways of doing things and will apply what they know, which might work for them, but not for anyone else coming on board that doesn’t have a handle on how they did what they’ve done.
I’ve worked with India-based developers for many years. What I’ve come to learn is that they go to school to learn web development, but they don’t go to school to learn how to solve problems. And, they say “yes” an awful lot but yes means they can try, not yes, they can do. Maybe with experience, they will, but like any junior developer anywhere, they will just build what they think you want in the only way they know how without thinking through the impact down the road.
For example, a few years ago, I needed my India team to build a website with a header and footer in a page builder called Divi. The page builder has a process for this. But what did my developers do? They custom-coded the header and the footer. This was before I learned how to do it in Divi myself.
Years later, once I had to go in and fix something, I couldn’t.
Why?
Because the way they built it with custom code was complicated, and they left me with no documentation on how they did it.
Back then, I didn’t know what I know now. I paid far more for what I needed because I didn’t know how to instruct them otherwise. And, when I finally found out years later, I’d stopped working with them because of these mishaps, so I had no recourse but to rebuild it all myself.
That’s right – a non-developer with product development experience and a deep understanding of WordPress fixed it all in under an hour. I can’t remember how much time it took them all those years ago, but it certainly wasn’t an hour.
Are you struggling with a WordPress project that you can’t seem to wrap your head around? Are you finding it hard to work with the offshore team that pitched you on being able to do anything you ask for without explaining how or why they’re going to do it that way?
If you need a coach to walk you through aspects of your web development project, I’m happy to be there for you. Schedule time with me to discuss your project. Let’s have a conversation about where you are and where you need to go, then start to right the wrongs that you may be experiencing.
As a WordPress coach, consultant, and trainer, I’ve worked with designers, developers, project managers, email marketers, social media managers, and many other roles on hundreds of projects. Let’s connect so I can assist you with working through your challenging website development roadblocks.