Tuesday, October 18, 2011

Offshore Software Development

By Ruben Wright


It is a well known fact that the offshore outsourcing (or any type of outsourcing for that matter) carries known and unknown risks. The important thing is to find out if your offshore outsourcing provider is aware of these risks and has a plan to either mitigate it or eliminate it altogether. The top 5 risks of offshore outsourcing are as follows:

Signing agreements is one of the essential parts of work in Offshore Software Outsourcing Company. After the patent of work is delivered to the outsourcing India, the technology is been kept secretive (as much as possible) in fear of duplication. This is one of the trade secret of the IT Company. Each and every company has models which brings work to the Software development firm. Now the IT Company has started providing back-testing facility to the financial structure. They stand as a strong competitor in the lucrative market.

Every year according to Nasscom, almost 1, 84, 86,000 of youngsters complete their graduation in India. Among them, many are thus attracted to the MNC and other BPO sects, to earn and live. Many youngsters want to study further, so they join the big companies, work hard for few months, and reserve that money for their education. So there is new set of generations who very well like the Idea of "earning and learning". Some of the Software Companies and BPO sects have notified this cyclic change in the youths and thus added novelties to their business sectors.

In order to mitigate this risk, make sure that your provider has gone through the requirement understanding phase before starting the coding phase. The requirement understanding phase should have multiple rounds of discussion with all the parties involved to fully understand and document their requirements in the Software Specification Documents. This phase is independent of technology selected for the project. For the web based projects, the provider should also prepare the HTML mock-ups which is an excellent way to capture the application flow. [These mock-ups should get reused during the coding phase for embedding the application method calls.]

Lot of the Offshore Software Outsourcing Company revenues goes in the training division of these employees. Senior Developer and the Project manager of the company usually deal with offshore clients based at overseas. So it becomes really difficult to communicate as accent comes in difficulty. To pursue any kind of project, it takes lot of preparations before hand. It is important that the developer should be able to understand the basic requirements of the client. So there is special need and attention given to those people. So, mock tests and aptitude tests, with revise on English language is being taken, inside the Offshore Software Development Company.




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