Combining Outsourcing with In house development
I am thrilled that two developers will be joining our UK office to provide support in our bespoke work for our customers around the world. Their tasks are not only bespoke applications but also e-form plug ins to assist with more complex form based work flows and processes.
The exciting parallel development is that we are scheduling long term visits from our core outsourced team into our UK team as well. This will produce a healthy cross fertilization of best practices and closer cooperation, with the UK team also helping with tighter core product specifications to go back to the core team.
At the same time we are decoupling some of our core intranet applications to allow them to be developed more rapidly than the 3 or 4 releases per year of Claromentis core code. At least one of these applications, Sales Manager, will be taken over by UK developers to increase the efficiency of customer feedback for this important application.
While this is all great – I would be really interested in hearing from anyone who has been through a similar process of combining in house developers with offshore development of complex products.
