One thing I did not see discussed here which in my experience as an outside consultant for significant bespoke software developments was important: Yes, you ca

One thing I did not see discussed here which in my experience as an outside consultant for significant bespoke software developments was important: Yes, you can attract and retain a good core development team through extrinsic benefits like nice salaries, bonusses, company cars etc. even if your business is not considered intrinsically attractive. However, how will the rest of your employees, both workers but also management cope with people in essentially purely production roles potentially be significantly more compensated than your middle management? I have seen more than one client that in theory could have benefitted from an inhouse team, but where that was the dealbreaking issue.