It is becoming a trend; for enterprises or startups regardless of their size to outsource their development requirements to technology partners, optimizing the delivery processes and cost without scaling the tech team capacity and overhead. But the real challenge comes when choosing the right software development outsourcing partner for your business?!
Software outsourcing is cost-effective and it will quicken the time to market. However, many business executives struggle to choose the right outsourcing partner, who can provide the required success formula. In this article, I will try to identify the key factors to be considered during the selection process:
- The agility of your business needs and product roadmap.
We build software to help us in achieving our business plans for implementing our product roadmaps. Also; the business models are always subject to change, according to the market and end users’ needs.
Hence, the software partner should be always flexible enough to handle and absorb the changes and adapt to the business changes.
- Win-Win engagement model
Without a doubt, outsourcing partner flexibility is a must to reach both the end business objectives and dynamic plans. Then the engagement and contracting model; in terms of payment and allocation, should be flexible enough to absorb the raised changes.
You may think a fixed scope pricing engagement will save your budget plan. In fact, a fixed scope contract can’t help your product development team; respond in an agile and flexible way to the backlog changes.
Surely you need your engaged partner to be a customer-centric partner, and you need your product development team to be end-user behavior centric. Achieving that, requiring a supportive engagement model.
- The implementation process
Whatever the allocated budget and team skills, this has no value to be achieved without applying the right process. That combines people, skills, and plans to achieve the targeted goals. Adhering to agile principles is necessary, where product management, software developers, and the business team can work together. Cooperating in an iterative mood to achieve the incremental work products and satisfy the market feedback.
Always look for a software partner who will provide the efficient Scrum Master to lead your assigned team. The best scrum master; is one who can speak and understand business needs, besides high technical capabilities.
- Partner capabilities, experience, and success stories
You need to gather information and know as much as you can about your partner’s technical capabilities. Such as software stacks they are using, the capacity of the team, their technical skill set, their tight implementation timeframes management, and keeping up with the latest technology trends.
An important question that needs to be answered; is how many success stories they delivered before, and what are their team’s capabilities to handle complex projects.
- Reliability
The trust between you and your software partner is extremely valuable and will grow during the journey. Meanwhile, within the selection process, you need to estimate the partner’s reliability.
Will your data and intellectual property be secure?
Does the partner have the tools and technology to protect your data and prevent the leakage of sensitive information?
Is there a solid support process that also includes maintenance, updates, and bug fixing?
- Last but not least, go for a validation ride
If you have multiple options and are still not confident enough to decide. A validation round, which could be a free consultation or sample trial, is the answer.
During the consultation, ask the potential partner about all the doubts you have. Try to understand how their ultimate solution can add business value.
Why is choosing MD-Labs digital transformation services the right choice?
We already agreed that your business needs agility, flexibility, efficient leadership, a reliable partner, and a validation ride.
MD-Labs will offer those factors for you & much more. With 40+ cumulative years of software delivery experience, in supporting many enterprises through their digital transformation journeys. Depending on a well-established agile process & flexible workflow to suit your business-specific needs to grow and develop. All of that will give you a smooth digital transformation experience, like never before.
