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Offshore teams are proving to be a strategic asset in the post-pandemic landscape. To survive, companies require wielding in every situation. Restaurants have partnered with food delivery networks, fitness instructors, and teachers who went online to take classes – digitalization happened in many areas sooner than planned.
In-House Dedicated Team vs. Outsourced Development Team
Dedicated offshore development teams work for a single client for the entire duration of the project. Businesses select developers and engineers according to the specific requirements of the work at hand. Here, the level of talent and skills are as important as the collaboration, cultural alignment, cost optimization, and speed of delivery.
An integrated development team focuses on what their client requires. They engage with the service/product and success of the business. Outsourcing a project to outsiders is feasible and fruitful shortly. But a dedicated team of in-house developers is preferable for business resilience and projects of longer duration.
When should you outsource?
The factors that will signal the need for a business to outsource:
- I want to reduce liabilities
- If you are on a tight budget
- To speed up development time
- To utilize the top resources and technologies
- In case of diminished quality and innovation
- When you require uttermost flexibility
When not to outsource?
Besides the points discussed above, there are reasons not to outsource:
- In the case of expert competencies
- If your cost obligations are too steep
- In the case of high risk
How to build your Outsourced Development Team?
It can be challenging to find the best offshore team for your project. Here are some points to make your process easy:
- Check for the developer’s location;
- Check for the agility and cost-effectiveness of the offshore development team;
- Check for the scope of knowledge, expertise, and skills;
- Look into the development company’s security policies – data protection, contractual agreements, and intellectual property rights;
- Conduct meetings regularly
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Nearshore vs Offshore Outsourcing
To understand it better, let’s assume that you and your competitors have your offices set up in European cities. But you have a team of highly skilled dedicated developers at an offshore location. To turn your team into a strategic asset and this scenario as an opportunity, you have access to talent that they cannot find at home. You have the power to grow, scale according to demand in the market, but they don’t. You can build in several months a team that would take your rivals 12-19 months with locally sourced engineers.
As a first step, start with understanding and chalking out the differences between project-based outsourcing and value-based outsourcing. Then try implementing the chosen approach. A company needs to visualize the process of aligning the new team culturally. And generally, there are no legal formalities to establish your development teams abroad.
Conclusive: How We Manage Offshore Development Teams at Konstant?
If a business dreams to grow, they require scaling, putting in new talent and training the existing ones. Outsourcing is not just saving cost but appending global expertise to the team of Offshore developers. It fills the skill gap and brings in the competitive advantage in the digital-first.
You need to understand the project and learn the basics before starting with the development. Search local contact information of the team to be outsourced. Look for their experience with previous clients (testimonials). Avoid security risks. Avoid barriers in communication. Implement Agile methodology, make use of project management tools and focus on the user design.
With frequent transformations in the market and demand in leveraging the technology to maintain the potency, offshore development proves to be a reliable option for many. Is your business ripe for offshore development? Talk to our experts to get help while deciding on hiring an offshore development team!