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- Outsourcing could work, given the right conditions:
- The biggest risk is that we have never worked together previously. Maybe we can start outsourcing with people we have previously worked with and mature our ability to package up work and quality assure it using mostly asynchronous methods of communication.
- We need the flexibility to engage differently skilled resources for different work. For example, we need a front-end developer for fixes and improvements to the Angular app, but a technical content person for migrating old/tail sites.
- Making the numbers work by outsourcing development is not easy and requires careful attention to the pay expectations of the staff involved. There are additional costs associated with not being co-located and these need to be factored in.