When do you use external service provider? I tried following:
- To provide commodity infrastructure services - in progress, think will work
- Commercial offerings without mixing in people from your company (defined scope and budget) - failed
- Fast experiments to validate options (no integration with platform, no involvement of internal people) - success
- Commercial offerings with heavily involving teams from your company (not fixing scope, but only cooperation period) - success
- Bringing in industry accepted expert for knowledge sharing, problem solving, review (short-term: up to 2 weeks) - success