There are situations in outsourcing that you could predict and there are some which you could not. That is a normal part in every business deal and outsourcing is no exception in that rule.

To help you identify if your outsourcing deals are "normal" or in the right phase, here are some of the common scenarios in outsourcing software development:

-Most software developers are separated from the stakeholders.
-The software development team often has little or no knowledge of the problem domain.
-Most of the stakeholders do not know how to express their needs to their development team in an understanding way
-The development team sometimes has difficulty articulating technical challenges to a nontechnical stakeholder group.
-Most of the requirements frequently change