Originally written by arateg on Small Business
Well, you want to create an app or website to address business-specific challenges. Aiming to access the field-specific expertise of engineers and reduce costs, you are going to outsource software development. However, every C-level executive and business owner have common worries when delegating projects to third-party contractors located abroad.
How will I control the process of building a software project if the vendor’s team works abroad? How do I establish close collaboration with an IT service provider? In this article, we will play down seven fears that companies often have when outsourcing IT-related tasks.
Playing down 7 fears when outsourcing software development
1. I don’t have a clear understanding of how I will control the software development process
Before outsourcing software development activities, you should find out how an IT service vendor allows customers to manage their project. Assure the company provides daily and weekly reports that contain information about completed and planned tasks, deadlines, technical challenges resolved by the team.
Ask an IT firm to give you access to a time tracking system to estimate the number of spent hours and ensure correspondence with deadlines.
Hold video and in-person meetings with an IT partner. With daily project discussions, you

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Originally written by arateg on Small Business
Well, you want to create an app or website to address business-specific challenges. Aiming to access the field-specific expertise of engineers and reduce costs, you are going to outsource software development. However, every C-level executive and business owner have common worries when delegating projects to third-party contractors located abroad.
How will I control the process of building a software project if the vendor’s team works abroad? How do I establish close collaboration with an IT service provider? In this article, we will play down seven fears that companies often have when outsourcing IT-related tasks.
Playing down 7 fears when outsourcing software development
1. I don’t have a clear understanding of how I will control the software development process
Before outsourcing software development activities, you should find out how an IT service vendor allows customers to manage their project. Assure the company provides daily and weekly reports that contain information about completed and planned tasks, deadlines, technical challenges resolved by the team.
Ask an IT firm to give you access to a time tracking system to estimate the number of spent hours and ensure correspondence with deadlines.
Hold video and in-person meetings with an IT partner. With daily project discussions, you

Read more...

Originally written by Anna Jordan on Small Business
In a post COVID-19 world, businesses will be looking at ways to sustain revenue and growth – this could include outsourcing.
Businesses can outsource a number of functions: think accounting, marketing, customer service and HR. IT is one of the most common as it is a cheaper way to do technically difficult jobs which the business owner doesn’t have the expertise to do effectively.
We give you the lowdown on IT outsourcing, with the info you need to decide whether or not it’s right for you.
What is IT outsourcing?
Firstly, lets establish what outsourcing is.
With outsourcing, you move part of your operations away from the hub of the business to a third party. This can be:

Offshore (outsourcing to a foreign country with favourable tax savings and lower costs)
Nearshore (outsourcing to a bordering country for easier communication)
Onshore (outsourcing within the company’s base country)
Cloud computing (the third party would provide IT-related services over the net such as software as a service or platform as a service)
Managed services (such as call centres, virtual private networks and firewalls)

In this case you’d be moving your IT off-site, allowing your company to grow without major risk or investment. Plus, you may not

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