Exactly, outsourcing success requires stakeholders and product actually writing down what they want, and the steps they want it done in, in verbose pedantic lan

Exactly, outsourcing success requires stakeholders and product actually writing down what they want, and the steps they want it done in, in verbose pedantic language and then staying on top of people who overlap for 1 hour per day at best to actually stick to that plan. If you have an org capable of doing that, amazing, sounds great.. I've not seen it once, anywhere, in 20 years. So given how real orgs actually work, the problem with the outsourcing model is - Good luck turning tasks around quickly, or changing directions on a dime, or course correcting devs who do most of their work while you are asleep. If companies really wanted to save money without all the pain, they'd hire nearshore US dev talent for 1/3 the cost of NYC/SF and eliminate most of those issues. But really for most businesses given the margins on software, dev costs end up being tolerable.