Imbalanced off-shore model – I won’t belabour this type of gluttony as it is usually less relevant to smaller projects and, for those that are interested, the penitence to the transgression is in the transgression itself! Bring balance to your imbalanced off-shore model. Explore opportunities to utilise the lower-cost off-shore workforce for more transactional elements of your project delivery. India and Manila now have intermediary companies which specialise in provisioning your project with a very small number of resources and they reduce your operational risk by taking on the middle management tasks of managing and attending to your off-shore staff (clearly they will also charge a higher margin for this but for a smaller project this can still be significantly more cost effective that running the project onshore in it’s totality. Obviously for the bigger programmes you have Tata et al or companies like Accenture have a huge, immensely well organised, CMMi compliant off-shore capability.