You can interact with a movie or a song only at the mental level, by feelings. There’s no physical interaction, like it happens in games (by using some tool and actually see the physical result of your interaction – even if it’s on screen only).

Maybe that’s what made the game industry become bigger than movie industry…people wanted more than just stare at the screen…

Its one thing to define the various levels of project risk, but quite another to actually make the determination of where given project component resides.

Could you also speak to risk mitigation techniques? (eg. Bow-Tie, etc)

I agree with your analysis, and would even extend it by stating that ideas/tech are like children.

Originating ideas and prototypes are oft referred to as “seminal works”. These works, once incubated, start developing into full grown technologies (children)

“That’s Bob’s baby” is heard in many inception phase environments. It’s mostly inside him, and begins to emerge as Bob goes into the labor phase.

You can’t steal a baby while still in the womb – unless Bob is a surrogate mother (Hand-Maiden/out-source labor). A surrogate Bob-Maiden could indeed run away while still in labor. Happens all the time.

A natural mother cannot steal her own baby.

So the dangers of outsourced development are similar to surrogate births. Even their raison-d’etres are the same: the baby has no natural mother (Bob-Maiden).

“Whoa!” you might say. “Are you stating that tech development is outsourced because there is no local labor force?”

Labor there is, but obviously not in any kind of force.

Why would a natural mother who is fertile allow a surrogate birth (Hand Maiden)? Vanity, perhaps but what kind of mother would that be?

Are local developers so vain that they permit outsourcing simply because they don’t want to get their hands dirty?

Bob-mother has as much choice in the matter as a natural mother. Bob is capable of labor and should engage in seminal works if he so chooses. Bob-mother’s wishes transcend any rational for a Bob-Maiden.

Here is the big creepy – Globalization is turning all developers into Bob-Maidens. They conceive the ideas, develop the tech and then it is whisked away.