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Talk to them early now. I still distrust about the consultants. Understand there may be other reasons for desire to outsource (personal connection, returning fa

Talk to them early now. I still distrust about the consultants. Understand there may be other reasons for desire to outsource (personal connection, returning favour, step towards more work with consultants in future.) Make your offer not just something that will make you look great and will also make your manager look great and their life easier. Here's an idea: offer to be the point man for interfacing with the consultants. Do you take charge of the interaction, get on their side as well, and then when all things go sideways, step in yourself and clean up the mess. After all, by that time you'll be the only one who knows how to fix it.

tmuir 11y ago
The push is completely driven by time/resource concern. The thing is, I'm almost certain that I can convince them to keep the work in house, and it makes everyone look good. Halve the future maintenance required. No time spent on onboarding new developers, no friction in communicating with remote developers. Save the company money. These are all pain points recently felt as well. The problem is how do I sell the fact that this will be a sizable effort on my end worth additional compensation?