The Bottom Line on Outsourcing
Not much quantitative data exists on the success or failure of outsourcing arrangements, but anecdotal reports have been favorable. For example, Capers Jones reports that outsourcing averages about twice the productivity of in-house development in New England banking applications (Jones 1991).
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