Outsourcing software development

Now, one of the most popular term in the business is “outsourcing“. Specialized software testing companies are now bought a variety of projects ranging from developing information technology strategy, completing the development of applications and this is due to certain advantages.

At first, giving a solution of their problems to companies that specialize in certain kind of activity (eg, application development), we can improve the quality and reliability of the solution of these problems, as well as the predictable result. Secondly, outsourcing of non-core activities will not divert its own staff for activities not relevant to their professional aspirations.

Third, a subcontractor who specializes in certain jobs, has extensive experience and has packaged solutions for common problems, which reduces the cost and accelerate their solution. Fourth, it is a company specializing in one form or another IT services, have the most advanced technologies, since they use these technologies is a key success factor. Finally, the outsourcing of application development will not have the IT department staff of developers, thus avoiding the problems associated with managing them. 

Of course, among managers and owners of companies have already appeared the first proponents of the IT-outsourcing, and is used primarily by outsourcing software development due to high cost of their own team.
Nevertheless, the outsourcing of software development has some specific characteristics, while they differ significantly in cases where the client company is not engaged in software development (software), and when the client company itself specializes in software development.

However, despite the attractiveness of outsourcing software development costs, however, aware of and possible negative consequences of the decision to transfer work on the development of software to another company. First, giving to the side of software development, the company will inevitably trust another company a certain percentage of their secrets, exposing themselves to the risk of leakage of confidential data. Sometimes it turns out that the organization of outsourcing must take extra effort to hide from the partner in charge of developing, information about the full application architecture and features of key business processes.

Secondly, there is another problem faced by customers of outsourcing software development. It is the need to invest in dive staff artist at the specifics of their business processes. Starting a project with the use of outsourcing, we have to expend some effort to ensure that partner is able to perform assigned tasks, for example, provide descriptions of business processes, and sometimes straighten on training courses on this or other technologies (particularly, it concerns the specific branch of technology ).

Ultimately, it may be that such an implicit training partner costs for the client company is expensive, and more profitable it would be these assets to invest in their employees. You have to understand that IT employees - companies are learning from project to project, and for the money the customer and the staff is not your company.

However, some of these risks can be reduced through appropriate administrative, legal and organizational measures (such as the conclusion of Executive confidentiality agreement and the requirement for a performer of a trade secret with a reference on reference to a commercial secret detention contract work). However, the conflict with the performer can lead to disastrous consequences if you do not calculate the risks of a possible change of executor and not to define the activities or ways of doing the work prevents it.