A: The ease of offshore SharePoint development depends on an organization's approach. Every offshore development project, regardless of the platform, faces similar issues such as time zone differences, language, and cultural barriers. There are three additional challenges that affect the off shoring of SharePoint development:
SharePoint Development requires close interaction with end users: Having a clear plan and the appropriate team members is key to making offshore SharePoint development successful. They must be treated as an augmentation to your existing team. It is not enough to have a business analyst in-house or on-site to collect requirements and pass them off to the offshore development team to code. A senior SharePoint architect is necessary to make architectural decisions and to lead quality assurance, testing, deployment, and adoption. An offshore team simply will not have the access to end users that is required for effective...