- Ideal for turning your business idea into a perfectly working solution!
When should be preferred?
You have a specific idea or project on hand.
Project duration is not long term (typically less than six months).
Task on hand is a short term task such as a quick fix, customization or feature development.
How is the process like?
Before the development starts, solution specifications and project scope are formalized by SWExperts.
Project managers, designers, user experience experts and software developers, who have previous expertise in developing similar solutions take part in the process of defining the deliverables, schedule and budget of the project with you.
During the development stage, which starts after all above crucial matters are agreed upon with you, the project manager acts as the single point of contact with you and leads the case. Scheduled meetings are held during which you monitor the process. You are also provided access to the beta versions of the software solution throughout the development process for hands-on experience.
In addition to the quality assurance that is run in parallel with the development by SWExperts, testing stage follows the development process, which is again carried out together with your participation and is based on your feedback.
Documentation of the final product is completed by SWExperts and conveyed to you making sure you will have full command and control for the operations and maintenance of the software.
What are the advantages?
- More efficient way of hiring and managing your own development staff!
When should be preferred?
The task on hand is not short term (typically longer than six months).
There’s a lack of qualified local expertise and/or local resources are expensive.
You want to improve your software development competency by expanding your team.
How is the process like?
At the beginning of the process, the skill sets, competence levels and quantity of the resources that will form the initial team are decided upon based on your needs by guidance of SWExperts.
The software developers are shortlisted and pre-screened by SWExperts, with whom interviews are carried out with your remote participation. Hiring process is finalized by you, with guidance of SWExperts, deciding upon the best candidates to hire who possess optimal skills and level of competency fitting your needs.
Your dedicated team right-away starts working for you under your management in your remote office location – at the premises and under supervision of SWExperts.
It is also ensured that your dedicated team :
- Suits your organization’s culture
- Does not have any communication barrier
- Has main focus of customer satisfaction
- Available long-term
What are the advantages?
- Brings required expertise, competency, skills and vision to your company!
When should be preferred?
Consulting and project management services are embedded both in the end-to-end project outsourcing and own dedicated team models. Additionally, in order to bring the required expertise, competency, skills and vision to your company for successfully driving your project, consulting and project management services are provided by SWExperts on standalone basis as well. This model is suitable for your company, especially if you;
Have a business idea in mind and need consulting for its evaluation, or having feasibility studies or market analysis done.
Have your own development staff who needs to acquire know-how in a new area or specific area.
Have a project on hand which does not require hiring and dedicating of a full-time project manager.
Need user interface or user experience evaluation for a service you provide to your clients or for an application you own.
Have peak and down periods that calls for on-demand project management efforts rather than by taking an additional headcount.
Consulting services
In the case of provisioning consulting services, one-off or on regular basis, inputs and deliverables from both sides are formalized by you and SWExperts, as well as the schedule and budget.
Depending on the duration of services to be provided, scheduled meetings are held regularly, during which verbal and documented knowledge sharing are carried on.
The process of provisioning consulting services ends after the agreed period provided that all of the pre-defined deliverables are produced by SWExperts. Final documentation is completed and provided to you, which, among all necessary information, includes in-depth analysis of possible steps further for your business or project.
Rather than technological or technical issues, user experience consulting happens to be the most common field on which companies choose to get consulting services. SWExperts provides user experience consulting both for your an existing service, website or application and also in the form of prototyping, design and mockups for your possible upcoming business. More details on this are highlighted in the ‘UX Experience’ part of our website under ‘Expertise’ part.
Project management services
Provisioning of project management services by SWExperts to your internal employees is a practice between consulting and complete end-to-end project outsourcing or dedicated team models.
In a nutshell, project management outsourcing workflow is similar to the one of consulting in the respect that it starts with formalization of inputs and deliverables, and determining the schedule and budget. In addition, Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) are defined together with you and SWExperts. KPIs, which shall be chosen correctly, objectively and clearly, are essential in the case of project management outsourcing for quantifying and measuring progress towards the agreed deliverables.
In most of the cases and as the size of the team to be managed allows, companies choose to have one outsourced project manager. It is ensured by SWExperts, that the project manager is available throughout whole business hours of your team, if your team is located in one place, or for any business hour shift of your choice. It is also ensured that continuous and effective communication is sustained between the project manager and team members. Rest of the project management processes such as monitoring, reporting, change management and more, are conducted as in the controversial manner of having an in-house project manager.
As project management involves more people than just project managers, in addition to hiring one project manager, you may choose to outsource many project management functions including training and support.
Project management outsourcing partner is not, and shall not be perceived your team members as, an outsider. Experience shows that the crucial factor for having success in outsourcing project management is that you provide the required authority to the outsourcing partner.