02 Engagements
Nearshore
Development Center
Building dedicated nearshore development centers is at the core of our business. Companies in financial services, insurance, internet and new media, technology, manufacturing, retail and education have used our nearshore outsourcing services to build development centers.
Engagement model
A branch of your
engineering department.
- Team
- 5 to 30+ engineers
- Model
- Managed or co-managed
- Setup
- 3–4 weeks
A nearshore development center is a dedicated team of experts — just like a branch of your internal software development department, only not co-located. This extension to your own software development team gives you access to extra technical talent and lets you adapt your workforce on the fly to changing needs.
You can choose to manage the nearshore development center yourself or have it managed locally by our engagement managers. A mixed approach involves delegating certain management functions nearshore, while retaining others with your internal team.
Least impact approach
When defining the operational and communication models, we use both our and your existing models and processes, tailoring them to our specific collaboration context. The goal is to make working with a nearshore development center as easy as possible for your internal teams.
Experienced companies are able to understand what clients use, in the context of the broader landscape of available processes and tools. Such companies can make recommendations which could actually improve the client’s existing choices, either at the beginning of the nearshore relationship or as it progresses.
We are always open to improving our processes and we learn from each engagement, via internal knowledge sharing between dedicated teams. There is always room for improvement.
Roadmap for a nearshore development center
This is how building a typical outsourced team looks, from day one up to a fully operational distributed team.
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01
Due diligence
Understand your current context and business needs.
- Define and align objectives
- Develop implementation plan and budget
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02
Resourcing plan
Turn the plan into named people.
- Define profiles and job descriptions
- Screen internal and external candidates
- Technical validation by our tech lead and your staff
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03
Engagement
Set the team up to work the way you work.
- Knowledge transfer for the initial members
- Define processes, tools and metrics
- Set up infrastructure and access
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04
Operations
Run, measure and improve.
- Ramp up to the required capacity
- Develop and/or manage applications
- Monitor and improve processes
- Recurring governance meetings
Access to great technical talent. Complete control over costs.
Specialised nearshore development companies can tap into large pools of engineers, through ample recommendation networks and the sheer diversity of projects they have to offer. This comes paired with great job stability, well-defined career plans and predictability for developers. Clients benefit from professionally managed nearshore teams and assured delivery.
A nearshore development center is first built based on your existing requirements. Changes might trigger ramp-ups or decreases in the number of nearshore developers. Seniority adjustments and re-allocating nearshore resources between tasks and sub-projects are also choices we can easily accommodate. Most of the time, nearshore development teams are more efficient when dealing with multiple projects for one client, so effort allocation can be routed to where the business needs it most.
Next step
Send us a project brief. Or just say hi.
A short note is enough. We reply within one business day, and a qualified shortlist can follow in 48 hours.