[dingaling]

Several times I've seen a talent-switcherchoo in play. The on-site transition team sent by ${OUTSOURCER} is usually top-notch, experienced folks who know the technology no matter how niche. ( CICS, Siebel and SAP for example ).

They'll spent three or six months on-site deep-diving the system and preparing to transition it back to their home office and meanwhile all the management-suits are nodding at the excellence of their outsourcing idea.

Once the project transitions, it's booted to a team of just-graduated staff who attempt to follow the documentation created by the transition team, and the rock-stars are presumably sent onto another on-site project. That's when the pain starts and by then it's too late; the local SMEs have all been let-go or reassigned.