Ask Slashdot: Is Outsourcing Development a Good Idea?

Posted by timothy on Thursday May 17, 2012 @05:33AM from the is-vi-better-than-emacs? dept.

New submitter penmanglewood writes "I am a developer at a small IT company, and we primarily make software and games for the education market. I used to work with a team of developers, but for reasons outside the scope of this question, my boss and I are the only ones left. My boss says that our new strategy is to use outsourced developers to do the 'monkey work' for us. To me, this sounds like a bad idea. Do we give the developers access to our internal libraries? How will they be able to work on parts of our product without having access to our repository. I could think of a hundred more objections, but maybe I'm looking at it the wrong way. Is there a smart way to outsource development, or is it just a bad idea?"

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Re:Just remember by Anonymous Coward · 2012-05-17 05:59 · Score: -1, Troll

People like you and your company should be expelled for treason, what traders to the American worker. And I could care less to hear what your lame excuses for doing so are.
As for the post, I think the fact that two of them are left, says it all about this company.