This whitepaper is written as a guide to an alternative mechanism for project implementation for business owners holding responsibility to deliver IT solutions in the SOA space. It could also be of interest to enterprise architects, project managers, and others involved in creating and executing software projects who would like to know more about how the phenomenon of offshore/onsite coordination, that emerged in the nineties, can be effectively applied towards realizing the promise of SOA.

Offshore/onsite partnerships rightly managed, with an awareness of the pitfalls and the correct set of mutual expectations established early in the project cycle, help considerably in realizing these projects, be it a full scale enterprise adoption, or a series of small iterative steps towards increasing reuse of technical assets.