Outsourcing software development is very difficult to do successfully. Some things to keep in mind: 1) Having a project manager on-site that works directly fo

Outsourcing software development is very difficult to do successfully. Some things to keep in mind: 1) Having a project manager on-site that works directly for you helps. 2) Keeping the productive team members and not renewing the rest works well. 3) Outsourcing items with a past history of success and keeping other items that failed on-shore can work too. For example, I outsource web design and QA, but keep development local. 4) Dumbing down items to match abilities helps. (One PM I know told some members writing bad code to do Stackoverflow research for the project instead.) 5) Beware of common outsourcing games.