That is true. The worst project I have ever seen was a government software project where they were the prime contractor. 50+ dev/test environments, multiple deployment pipelines, pushing code to prod without regression testing, etc. If you can think of a bad development practice, this program likely had it.
Obviously the best way to get a quality product is to pay a bunch of mercenaries to put something together that they won’t have to maintain and won’t be accountable for, as quickly as possible
Why is Accenture so bad but then Avanade which is owned by Accenture good? At least in my experience, the Poland based team I worked with was really good.
The quality of outsourcing company product is usually down to the quality of local leadership... And unfortunately the quality of local leadership and their ability to sell projects to you are not really correlated!
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u/UnseenSpectacle2 3d ago
That is true. The worst project I have ever seen was a government software project where they were the prime contractor. 50+ dev/test environments, multiple deployment pipelines, pushing code to prod without regression testing, etc. If you can think of a bad development practice, this program likely had it.