ODT and Outsourcing on Progress
Outsourcing is the best solution when you don't possess enough in-house expertise and budget for an IT development project. It's great when you can afford to develop in-house everything you need, but what if have to retrain your employees or hire new ones, pay for re-equipment, and deliver a project against a tight deadline? I'm afraid your choices are limited to giving up or resorting to the outside expertise. No wonder the notorious drawbacks of IT outsourcing and criticism from the general public don't seem to affect the scope of this omnipresent phenomenon. It is still on progress even among criticisms.
New Horizon
On a survey conducted by a famous company in 2004 provides following statements:
1. The outsourcing trend is in progress even while reducing costs.
2. Outsourcing is more than cost savings now.
3. Companies are looking to free up internal resources to focus on more critical initiatives.
4. It states that Outsourcing is in progress on further years.
5. Globalization creates new opportunities for those businesses that know how to establish sophisticated and interdependent relationships with their offshore vendors.
Committed team work
An Offshore Dedicated Team provides and fulfills the customer's requirements, practices, and even culture operators. The Offshore Dedicated Team model sets the customer free from such problems as incorporation, recruitment, office lease, infrastructure set-up and maintenance. Outsourcing goes beyond the conventional project model. Offshore clients provide their customers with exclusive full-time dedicated resources on a long-term basis. Using an ODT, a business can reduce development costs, get access to specific skills, gain better control over the entire development process, achieve easy scalability, and have the accumulated expertise transferred back in-house. It widens a new mature phase.
By outsourcing work to their offshore centers, some companies advance their technologies, obtain substantial cost savings, and at the same time allow their in-house teams to concentrate on their core tasks. Nowadays, an increasing number of mid-size businesses outsource large-scale and/or continuous projects to offshore dedicated development centers and teams. Such projects involve custom software development and/or maintenance, R&D, testing, QA. The time of operation of an ODT is normally six months or more, otherwise the invested time and effort don't pay off. This Offshore Development Team do a great job for the development of business.
Be alert
Of course, the Offshore Dedicated Team functions well and it is advantageous, but care should be taken in selecting a proper vendor and the projects should be planned well, and the management should done well.
An outsource service provider that already has the required infrastructure and access to highly qualified labor force will make the process of ODT set-up and operation quick and easy.
The onshore/offshore model normally ensures a better customer service experience, more reliable communications, and cheaper banking operations when compared to the pure offshore model. Selecting an outsourcing partner, the most reasonable option is contacting a U.S. based company with operations overseas. American clients should feel more confident and at ease operating within the U.S. business and legal standards.
The best way around this problem is overlapping shifts that allow the in-house team and the ODT to effectively cooperate. The communication plan has to provide for online meetings, reports, and briefings. The potential problem with communication across the time zones should be discussed and solved upfront.
The operation risks can be minimized by effective planning. Among the issues that have to be covered by plans are the business continuity, disaster recovery, resumption, and crisis management. A crucially important issue is the process of information transfer from the ODT to the in-house team. This process involves bug tracking and task management online collaborative systems, scheduled milestone reviews, and deliveries that include source code, documentation, and delivery reports.
Ups and Downs of ODT
The Offshore Development Team has its own disadvantages and advantages.
Time variation: The time difference between the customer and vendor is seven hours or more, so the in-house team is likely to arrive at the office at the same time when the vendor's employees are leaving, but the ODT model shift overlapping and round-the-clock programming become easily available. When the in-house team and ODT work in shifts, development continues 24 hours a day, and the turnaround duration become less.
Faming out of projects: A lot of vendors advertise services and even take up projects having little expertise in appropriate areas. Some vendors diversify their activities to such an extent that being competent in any particular area becomes problematic for them. All vendors try to accumulate as many projects as they can, and then place the highest emphasis on the most profitable of them. As a result, a number of projects - in full or in part - are farmed out to subcontractors but this process is impossible with an ODT which is directly controlled by the customer.
Control: Vendors take control in the conventional project model over projects that are outsourced. And this is the challenge any business involved in outsourcing faces but the ODT model secures the customer's tight control over the entire process and makes it possible to increase the quality of work while decreasing the amount of time and effort.
Conclusion
A company can reduce contract arrangement time, improve project management and control, and increase overall resource efficiency with ODT. Offshore dedicated development centers and teams provide a number of advantages that otherwise just aren't possible to achieve. And also the project costs can be cut down by 60% or even more.
