Large Tech Projects need outsourced developers, here are 7 reasons why this is important.
Whenever you undertake a large software project for your business, whether to employ a new software developer or to hire the services of an external Software Development company to expand your in-house development team, is a decision that will depend on your immediate needs and what you foresee to be the future needs of your business.
Hiring an external software developer when needing to extend your development team has many benefits. Here we discuss 7 reasons how external developers can be an extension to your team.
1. Save Time and Money
Sourcing and attracting your own developer with the right skills may be a difficult and protracted exercise. Your search may find you constantly competing with larger organisations or software development agencies who can usually entice top talent more easily and with a more lucrative salary.
An external software development company, however, can assemble a team of experts with the right skills in just a couple of days or weeks.
Hiring your own new developer has extra high cost implications with recruitment fees, pension, medical aid, leave and infrastructure costs like desk, computer etc.to consider along with the salary.
2. Faster Development
It takes quite a while before a new developer is fully integrated into a company which may impact on and delay your software project whereas external developers, with their knowledge and previous projects experience, know exactly what to do and can jump in and get started immediately.
3. Access to Top Talent
Hiring an external developer gives your business and your team access to all the experience and skills they have garnered from their numerous and diverse, previous development projects. They will bring with them a ready set of tried-and-tested processes and workflows which will speed up the project and will grow the expertise of your in-house team.
The external developer’s team which is assigned to your project will consult their other team members for assistance and advice whenever they encounter a stumbling block. This way your business and your team will also benefit from their whole company’s expertise.
4. Flexibility
When your software project is complete, what will happen if there is insufficient work to keep your software development team occupied and you need to scale it down? To continue paying a salary whilst a software developer (or developers) is “on hold” is costly to your business. If you decide to dismiss/retrench anyone, this may damage your team’s morale.
It is much easier to scale down an external software development team when you need to adapt to any changing business requirements. Contracts with external developers can be made flexible so that you can scale up or down according to your needs.
5. Manage PeakTimes Better
There are particular times when an IT department battles to keep up with the demands e.g. month end, Christmas, year end, audit time etc. and all developers are needed to assist which could affect the progress of a project negatively. With an external developer on board, the software project will not be impacted at these times but will continue uninterrupted. An external developer’s team may also be able to provide great assistance to your team during these difficult peaks.
6. Advice on Evolving Technologies
It’s hard to keep up with the constantly evolving software industry unless you are a software company. External developers will show you and your team any new technologies relevant to your project and will also keep you abreast of, and suggest, other technologies which have the potential to improve and streamline your business.
7. Focus on Your Business
Professional external developers have timeous and effective communication, feedback and reporting mechanisms to advise their clients on a project’s progress. This will allow a client to focus on his core business confident that his software development is on track and in the hands of experts instead of the client having to monitor how his in-house team is doing himself.
Always choose a reputable, accomplished and professional external Software Development Company if you wish to extend your in-house team of developers. Your business and your team will benefit greatly from all the skills and knowledge they impart which they have acquired from their varied and extensive previous experience.
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