2) Skin-in-the-game This is much different than money. My first thought would be lifetime support costs and future autonomy. My other experiences with consult

2) Skin-in-the-game This is much different than money. My first thought would be lifetime support costs and future autonomy. My other experiences with consulting is that while consultants "just want to code", for their bill-ables and deliverables are much more important than well-written code. In particular, this is expressed with agencies / consultancies scaling. In order to continue profit margins, agencies must hirer lesser experienced and cheaper consultants as the number of projects grow. Without billing for training, this results in a very disparate deliverable. A final emphasis is that consulting often doesn't result in tested code (healthcare.gov) because the client isn't often isn't willing to spend the extra money on a product that should be deliverable (and huge assumption, but bug free)