Offshore Development Center
Whether you call it distributed software development, or distributed product development, making it effective comes down to the same. You need to know how to become effective in a complex multi site situation. This is exactly what we have 15+ years of experience in.
The choice for offshoring software R&D activities is always a long term, strategic choice. That is the reason why coMakeIT aspires to set up its customer relations as a long term partnership, in which we continuously add value.
- Maximum transparency with minimum effort and risk in managing the offshore location
- Flexibility and long term continuous support in changing circumstances
- Increasing R&D efficiency
- Cost Optimization
The coMakeIT state of the art Offshore Development Center (ODC) is the centre in which customer dedicated software development teams work, supported by best practices and supportive services. The state-of-the-art Offshore Development Center (ODC) offers four pre-defined yet customizable models for product software companies to provide them with flexible scaling possibilities.
- Team Hosting
- Team Acceleration
- Distributed Product Development
- Hosted R&D
These models distinguish themselves based on the degree of involvement and ownership of coMakeIT in accomplishing the best fit solution for a customer.
Using our ODC@Work framework and dependant on the product life cycle phase of the product, the customer can chose which model is most suitable. coMakeIT is happy to work with its customer in such a decision process using its experience in R&D offshoring.
Within the ODC@Work framework, it is always be possible to customize the basic models by adding or modifying involved services. It will also be easy to switch between these models, implementing a natural growth path towards higher levels of focus and efficiency, thus continuously staying in sync with the product life cycle.
You can expect from coMakeIT full transparency in what is being offered and what you can expect as listed below.
Team Hosting
Reuse the coMakeIT facilities and Infrastructure, which are completely dedicated and tuned towards a product development setup, to setup your own owned development team. You can benefit from coMakeIT’s economy of scale, ICT infrastructure, knowledge and support, to have state of the art development facilities at a low cost.
- Your Indian team is recruited by yourself and on your own payroll
- coMakeIT takes care of state of the art office facilities and infrastructure
Key coMakeIT performance indicators for this model are: availability and uptime of your infrastructure.
Team Acceleration
Increase your own onsite team capacity with one or more people in India. Owned by coMakeIT, but specifically hired, and dedicated working for you. Threshold and lead time for this are low; acceleration of your ability to execute will be high.
- In spirit and practice, the Indian people will be working as a dedicated and integral part of your onsite team
- Product, project and team management will be controlled on site by you
- coMakeIT will help you in individual people management to overcome the geographical challenge
- coMakeIT will help you to implement your way of working in your offshore team
Key coMakeIT performance indicators for this model are: Seamless integration of the team into your way of working, quality of the people, low attrition.
Distributed Product Development
Extend your R&D department with one or more self containing contained teams in India. The teams are owned by coMakeIT, but specifically hired and dedicated working for you and are independently able to convert concepts and ideas into software components. Time to market for new or enhanced products can be significantly shortened.
- In spirit and practice, the Indian team will be working as a dedicated and integral part of your R&D department.
- Product management will be completely controlled on site by you
- Project and team management will be done by coMakeIT
- Convert your ideas in to reality without hurting the ongoing developments
- Start with solution proposal
- Delegate the development work to your offshore team
- Agree on measurements for delivery and quality
- coMakeIT will help you to implement and manage your offshore team part as professional working team, realizing your goals.
Key coMakeIT performance indicators for this model are: On top of what you get in the Team Acceleration model, you will also be assured of a high level of team delivery assurance.
Hosted R&D
Maximize focus on your core competence, and on building your business by delegating the complete R&D expertise to coMakeIT. This way you are Lleveraging our long term expertise in Enterprise Software R&D and off shoring.
- In spirit and practice, the hosted R&D department team will be working as a dedicated and integral part of your company.
- Strategy and solution direction will be completely controlled on site by you.
- Leverage coMethod™, our development methodology of coMakeIT for quality improvement.
- Utilize the feedback loops periodically to steer the developments to your preference.
- coMakeIT will help you to implement and manage a highly efficient and cost effective R&D department.
Key coMakeIT performance indicators for this model are: On top of what you get in the Distributed Product Development model, coMakeIT will take ownership for your complete R&D performance measured in output and efficiency.