Outsourcing kills.
https://bloomberg.com/news/...

Outsourcing is fine but outsourcing for 5 bucks and expecting high quality product is like buying a balloon hammer and expect it to work with steel.

Great article, what’s next atomic silo developers for rice bowl ?

Remembers me of a company who outsourced their internal IT to 1$/h experts...
Of course this didn't work well, but at least nobody died in this case.

Outsourcing safety critical things is a horrific thing, I mean, aren't there mandatory coding standards for airplanes?

Boeing is saving so much money they might not afford it

Quality takes skill and effort, and both are expensive.

I find the articles (Bloomberg, Reuters, etc.) on 737 Max a bit misleading. 9-dollars-an-hour for graduates in India is too high and for Seattle is a bit too low (someone would rather work in McD instead).

The report states the 9 dollar outsourcing to India and immediately shifts focus to rows of contractors in Seattle, which begs the question whether these are grads or workers shipped across countries?

The underlying problem is not outsourcing, which the article tries hard to justify, since the specs were from Boeing. The underlying problem is tight deadlines and encouraging "frugal" ways of development. Boeing was losing hard against Airbus and had to come up with something fast. It did what every company does, that is, buy an "off-the-shelf" team and give them unrealistic deadlines with crappy PMs who don't know apeshit and justify their existence by filling templated excel sheets, which spirals out quickly and then leads to disasters such as this one.

When will people understand that good software takes time?