It's not always about the money. This week’s Off the Record author’s company, not unlike many other organizations, wanted to pay less for Java programmers. So it outsourced the Java development of a core product function to foreign workers. But the underlying goal of saving money quickly, if not predictably, became unreachable. Cheap labor? You get what you pay for. “As my project heads into the sunset of its final days, the vicious cycle of fixing annoying last-minute change requests almost always results in the two words dreaded most by all project managers: schedule slip.” Technology Industry