When I went freelance, the opinion of outsource development came as a shock to me. As someone who has spent the last 20 years working at director levels in various sized organisations I thought that outsourcing was a solved problem.

As I moved into the world of Fractional CTO, helping startups on the initial steps in their tech journey, a common thread emerged - they are all using outsource wrong. From a belief that outsourcing is bad and building internal teams too complicated for an organisation to handle, to bad outsourcing that threatens the progress of the business - in/out sourcing decisions are damaging great businesses.

I talk with these founders. I help them repair the choices.

But I need your help. We need to start viewing outsourcing as a tool in our chest. Something we are comfortable using. Something we are able to discuss with others.

In this talk I will go through a number of anonymised case studies, looking at what went right, what went wrong and how we can apply these lessons into our everyday work.