Outsourcing has evolved, we are no longer just sending a list of assets to be done, Co-development is becoming the standard. This brings a new set of challenges such as fully allowing external teams into your ecosystem and being a part of your team. How do we help externals work alongside internal teams and become drivers of features?

One thing that has always improved the quality of work is for the external teams to fully own their work. Improving collaboration between teams allows for new ideas to come up and creativity to flow, which can lead to a trust being built between teams and forging long lasting relations that can go across multiple projects and sometimes even across studios.

So I’m happy to share my learnings from being an artist in an outsourcing studio to an Outsource Manager in development studios. Together we’ll discuss the best ways to give teams ownership of their work, build trust so they can achieve creative freedom and find areas where their expertise might raise your own internal quality bar.