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Re:Virtual passport app presents real data risk, experts warn by danpalmer on Monday February 22, 2021 @08:13AM (#26224106)
This only works if the internal client doesn't take the savings as margin, _and_ the communication and project management is good enough to overcome the issues that come with outsourcing.

In this case you've now got 3 levels of project management (Canadian govt, IBM CA, IBM India), 2 countries, 2+ languages, and 2 layers of a company who are banned from government contracts in parts of the world for over spending and under delivering.

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Re:Virtual passport app presents real data risk, experts warn by thegeekbin on Monday February 22, 2021 @09:47AM (#26225106)
IBM Formula For Pricing:

Initial Price = Estimated_Cost / 1000

"Oops, we need more money" = (Estimated_Exec_Bonus + Estimated_Corp_Greed) + Worker_Cost + Extra_Corp_Greed

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Re:Virtual passport app presents real data risk, experts warn by debarshri on Monday February 22, 2021 @01:03PM (#26227858)
It might not be organized that way. For instance, it could be that IBM canada basically sold the project and IBM India are the people who would be implementing it. I don't enough about IBM's organization structure to comment on this topic.
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