> by default has no sense of ownership. Because they don't own anything. They're paid to enrich the requirements into software specifications and nothing else.

> by default has no sense of ownership. Because they don't own anything. They're paid to enrich the requirements into software specifications and nothing else. It gains them absolutely nothing - so why would they ever feel any sense of ownership after the job is delivered and accepted? The business relationship is predicated on them being disposable contract workers. At a minimum, a sense of ongoing engineering ownership requires an ongoing relationship predicated on trust and support - which requires ongoing financial support after the software project is 'completed' - which Boeing, in hiring contract workers, explicitly did not want to provide. Given this, how can we seriously expect the engineers of an outsourced development shop, working under a piecework contract, to ever feel any sense of ongoing ownership?