How to encourage a self-sufficient dev team? I’m a babysitter. 😢

Hey Guys,

I'm a product manager but really I'm also a dev lead or at least the main stakeholder for their team. We have a scrum master who's not as involved as he probably should be, but we're starting to have some issues as we grow. Our dev team is outsourced and consists of 8 people in India, QA, Back end guys, etc.

I'm staying up morning and night making sure that they understand the requirements and what is expected of them, but recently we've had to do more handholding than usual. Our network guys have to walk them through how to open a port, or check resourcing. I have to tell them how to talk to each other and get past seemingly very basic roadblocks. It's like I have a class of kindergartners and have to tell them how to think.

They can code fine when given very specific parameters, but as we grow I can't hand-hold everyone. Do I need to enforce the Scrum-master is far more involved, do I need a clear expectations list or just tell them to figure it out. I can't teach how to google, or critically think though – it's a big issue and everyone on our end is getting annoyed and it's almost like we're enabling them when we do stuff for them.

Am I the problem in not setting expectations, or do we just have a shitty dev team?

What do you think?