Re: Consensus? #733 Outsourcing principle

["Spencer Dawkins" <spencer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I can't promise I'm interpreting the discussion correctly, but my 
understanding is that our bias is not in favor of outsourcing, but 
against empire-building and bloat. As long as we say "zero-based", so 
that we're giving the right clues about not spending lots of money in 
ways that create the expectation that we'll continue to spend money 
the same way next year, I think we've said what needs to be said.

Without tying our hands if we ever decide we need two employees in 
order to be efficient.

Spencer

> > I'd like people to explain why they think that the BCP should 
> > impose a
> > bias towards outsourcing as opposed towards doing things in the
> > most efficient way possible.
>
> I have sympathy with that view, especially since outsourcing can 
> lead
> to egregious results if you do it wrong (just think "billable 
> hours").
> But on the other hand, we want to discourage egregious bloat of 
> direct
> staff posts (I could give some examples, but then I would probably
> get sued). And if we just say "do things in the most efficient way
> possible" we've said very little. So I ended up thinking the 
> proposed
> text was OK.


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