Personally, I define a “good technical resource” as someone I can trust and someone who is smart. It’s the full package. The main hurdle for me is still the big picturing talent. You are right, you don’t need scientists, but you do need thinkers. People who can envision what needs to be done on a high level.

We don’t take small projects, and if we do, we charge twice what we’d normally charge. The real value in outsourcing is to build a team that acts as a natural extension of you. Again, you’re looking for a trustworthy team that does what they say they’ll do, you don’t need rocket scientists. You can work around technical limitations, but you can’t work around incompetence.

Outsourcing is about high value, not low cost. If you’re looking to save pinch pennies, you’ll be sorely disappointed when you get burned by a ’software sweatshop’

Raza Imam
http://SoftwareSweatshop.com