Companies face intense competitive pressure to speed products to market faster; putting a strain on traditional engineering workforces and development processes. And the cost of developing and maintaining an internal engineering capability has skyrocketed.
For an increasing number of organizations around the world, the ability to augment their existing engineering staff with outsourced services is becoming essential to meeting product development needs in a timely and cost-effective manner. Software development off-shoring and outsourcing can reduce labor and development costs significantly as well as advance companies ahead of competitors in speeding new products to market.
However, any outsourcing model comes with its own baggage. Some of them are;
- Cultural and communication barriers
- Time-zone difference
- High cost of onshore
SmartShoring with Cyber Group
Customers are often put in a position to choose between high end onsite consulting companies or cheap offshore companies with worker bee mentality. Cyber Group offers its customers an alternate offshore model (SmartShore) model which captures the benefit of both these options.
SmartShore minimizes traditional shortcomings and offers additional benefits;
- Handle complex solutions
- Leverage cost benefits of onsite-offshore development
- High touch service
SmartShore Agile Engagement Model
Our management team has vast experience in refining global delivery model to optimize maximum benefits from offshoring. We have combined these unique experiences to develop our agile engagement model. The goal is to offer a ongoing interaction and transperent view of the project status. Here are some highlights of our engagement model;
- Minimize customer exposure to time-zone and inter-cultural differences
- Requirements, Release Planning, Architecture and High-level Design are effectively done onsite with the customer
- Sample code review and partial test process executed in Dallas
SmartShore Development Methodology [Off-Shore Product Development]
Our development methodology is hybrid and adopts the best of Waterfall and Agile development concepts. Our SmartShore development methodology effectively manages the scope of the project, while still allowing for transparency and flexibility for change.
