Then you need to review the code once in a while and also put some code quality related clauses in the contract.
If you do that you'll find that outsourcing to India is actually not such a bad idea and guess what , we're cheap :D.
If you do that you'll find that outsourcing to India is actually not such a bad idea and guess what , we're cheap :D.
Overall it has been my experience that you pay multiple offshore resources to get the output of 1 onshore resource. If you bring them from offshore to onshore their productivity does go up some. The caveat to that is they do have really good QA teams and I wouldn't hesitate to leverage them in that role.
The only way I can see is to thinly slice the system enough and to require business peer review and daily demos on all slices to correct bad systems earlier. This also means you need a top engineer devoted to babysitting on behalf of the organization, and a good enough engineer to handle the code reviews can probably do the job better than a team of remote mediocre engineers.