> Someone at Thoughtworks sold Dominion Energy on the idea that Thoughtworks... if things go well, they will get follow-on business and maybe even a whitepaper.

> Someone at Thoughtworks sold Dominion Energy on the idea that Thoughtworks... if things go well, they will get follow-on business and maybe even a whitepaper. ... > Market pressures don’t apply to internal teams Market forces are constantly applied against internal IT teams, particularly in non-tech companies. The market force is replacing them with consultants. Sometimes they will make those employees train their own replacements[1][2]. Or that there are consultants that can't be fired. The project is over schedule, but too much sunk cost to replace them and no internal devs. A $6M project becomes a $1.25 billion project and fails in slow motion over a decade.[3] Anyway, my point is that it's not as simple as "internal is always safe, consulting is always tougher". [1] - https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/04/us/last-task-after-layoff-at-disney-train-foreign-replacements.html https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/04/us/last-task-after-layoff... [2] - https://www.mercurynews.com/2016/11/03/after-pink-slips-ucsf-tech-workers-train-their-foreign-replacements/ https://www.mercurynews.com/2016/11/03/after-pink-slips-ucsf... [3] - https://www.henricodolfing.com/2019/12/project-failure-case-study-queensland-health.html https://www.henricodolfing.com/2019/12/project-failure-case-...