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The Time I Convinced the CTO Not to Outsource Our Developers

This was several years ago in grumpy old dev’s career back when he was still enthusiastic young dev. Someone above the CTO had signed a sweetheart deal with one of the large contracting companies to buy a fixed amount of development time and services each year. And so all the technology executives were scrambling to find useful work for the contracting house to do. (This deal also lead to The One Where I Lie To The CTO)

Someone above the CTO had signed a sweetheart deal with one of the large contracting companies to buy a fixed amount of development time and services each year. Our cadence was such that I would give high level directives like “create a web service that does x ” and one or two developers would sit down and make it happen pretty close to what I had intended with very minimal input from me. A few days later the vendor rep’s boss came to my office and told me that if I wasn’t going to commit to paying for these valuable resources he would have to move them to another project.

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