USEP's Decision about Utilizing In-house Resources - Was it a good decision?

Many aspects are considered and thought-out to decide whether to outsource or to utilize in-housing. These considerations mainly involve expertise and proficiency of the workforce, monetary funding, time exploitation and observance of confidential information of the organization. Certainly any organization desires to be able to come up with a sensible and money-wise decision. Effective and efficient output is expected at a right comparable price. Various are anxious about keeping the privacy of their organization’s data. Of course, the company’s information is one of the valuable possessions.

Well, I think the university decided to make the most of in-housing mainly to be able to diminish the expense and costs of the project. Since the university’s personnel are being employed, I guess the rate of charge or simply the compensation of the employees would be less costly than hiring outsourced workforce. Next would be for the cause of concealing classified records and information of the university. In the case of opting in-housing, the university’s private data would be more secure and protected when the personal employees of the university take over the making of the project.

Was it a good decision? I have heard many opinions regarding the issue. Some say that it was not a very good decision for the reasons that various practiced and proficient IC (Institute of Computing) faculty are being put up to do the task, leaving a number of major subjects with no instructors to take over; the time frame that was given to the in-housed resources was not sufficient that the output of the system project is not yet that unstable and have some flaws; and for this cause, the IC faculty member would be occupied again with the system project thus being able not to attend to several number of subjects, and since part of developing a system is its maintenance, we should expect that those faculty members who were assigned to the task would be imprecisely and wholly unavailable to be teaching again and be doing their responsibilities as instructors.

Some would say that the university made the right choice since the cost of developing the project is less pricey than using outsourcing. I guess that would be true somehow. I suppose that the university would not take such a crucial step of making this decision if it would not do any good to the university itself. But we have to keep in mind as well that the possibility of missing some important points regarding making decision about the said issue is inevitable. I, for myself think that at some certain angles of view, the university did make a commendable decision utilizing the in-house resources and at some point, the university one way or another missed some significant details and considerations in making the decision.

I greatly believe that the developers of the system project or the IC faculty members that were tasked to develop the project are the ones who are of great benefactor to the said action of the university. They still get to earn loads of subject to handle and they are being paid by the university for the development of the project.

So I guess if I have to assess and take into consideration these benefits made, I would say that it was in some way a good decision. But I also believe that it could be improved more with appropriate and accurate balance and deliberation of the issue.

What I have stated possible reasons are simply assumptions of mine. There are neither compelling nor verified backup nor support to the enumerated reasons and basis. I suppose to validate or to clarify the valid reasons behind the in-housing decision made by the decision-makers of the university, is to address these questions directly to the board of the university.