Some of the main risks associated with the offshore software development process are listed below.

1. Software outsourcing partner doesn’t have requisite skills
2. Software outsourcing partner is not reliable and doesn’t take the ownership of your success
3. Software outsourcing partner goes out-of-business or changes career in case of a freelancer.
4. The currency devaluation makes it expensive to use an offshore partner.
5. In-house process is not flexible enough to utilize offshore software development resources, and outsourcing partner is not flexible either.
6. Offshore software development resources lack English communication skills.
7. Your vendor doesn’t overlap working hours with your staff for meetings and one-to-one communication.
8. Lack of experience about the business needs makes it hard to use the offshore software development skills.
9. The vendor is not capable enough to absorb the fluctuations in your development resource requirements from month to month. It becomes extremely difficult to rely on freelancer resources if your business sees high variability in your development needs under tight deadlines.
10. Software outsourcing partner doesn’t have requisite infrastructure to provide reliability of software development delivery.