Outsourcing Risk Checklist — a checklist you can use

What it's for

Verify what you give up when you don’t own a step — knowledge, margin, control.

It belongs to the Boundaries family of work and is built for one job: stress-test. Pairs with: Boundaries.

A one-time purchase — yours to use on any project, as many times as you like.

Start from the blank template, or learn from a worked example inside a related story.

Drop it into your next memo, review or board deck — already structured the way strategists think.

Trace the ripple effects of a move two and three steps downstream.

Assume the decision failed; work backward to the causes; pre-empt them.

Force the strongest counter-argument to your strategy, then resolve it.