Outsource It!

You Are More Dependent Than You Think

It’s obvious that a dependency on a third party increases your liability, and an unplanned loss of a relationship has costs associated with it. What isn’t immediately apparent is how dependent you are and how high those costs could be. In my experience, most companies underestimate their dependency and the impact of a potential loss.

All too often we look at outsourcing as a temporary solution for a transient issue. But remember that old observation from the civil engineering industry: nothing is as permanent as temporary construction. The dependencies that come from embedding the vendor into our software development life cycle are strong. The offshore company becomes one of the links of your production ...