Offshoring - Advice, Support & Delivery
If you are considering "offshoring" a part of your operation, you will have many questions and many concerns as there are many examples of offshoring engagements not achieving their promise. Many of these issues are not limited to offshore engagements, but also occur when a function or part of a function is outsourced onshore. Distance is not as relevant as you might expect.
Pantheon Management has over a decade experience in advising companies in how to achieve the cost savings, scalability, productivity and quality you require from any outsourced team.
If you are having difficulty:
- Scaling your development teams?
- Paying inflated salaries that are seriously impacting your bottom line?
- Require specific technical skills (like C++) cannot be found?
but you fear that remote development teams may be
- tough to manage
- difficult to QA
- impossible to control
With over a decade experience in helping companies create, manage and monitor teams offshore, Pantheon Management can help and guide you through some of the most critical aspects of building up an offshore or nearshore team. We will help you:
- Find a suitable partner who can work with you through the good as well as the bad times and matches your company culture
- Negotiate the best terms in the market
- Set up the initial teams and organise your existing teams in new working practices
- Define knowledge transfer processes to make sure you're not stuck with training every new recruit.
- Set up multiple teams (development, QA, support) to match your exact requirements
- Establish best practice development processes
- Help your organisation in moving to an agile development process if required
- Set up the reporting requirements so you can make sure that you are achieving value for money throughout the engagement (not just the first few months)
We also work with companies who have demonstrable product development skill and can provide the quality staff you need to deliver the high quality product on time and at an affordable price.
Main advantages of offshoring are:
- Find the exact skill-set you require when you need it
- Ramping up your teams when you need the resource. Ramp down when they are no longer required.
- Outsourcing specific modules, whole versions, ports, or just the boring bits.
- Achieving the agility you require in a competitive market