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Offshore Development

Centers (ODC)

+38 (050) 388 49 17

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Why offshore development center?

- are good for both startups and existing business

- can run one or several software projects simultaneously

- can include one or several development and QA teams with different skills

- are set up and supported by an outsources service provider usually at their premises and with vendor’s experience and existing infrastructure

Offshore Development Centers

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ODC Benefits

- Quick set up and quick cancelation, no longer-term investments

- Reduced costs as compared to onshore labor costs

- Reduced costs as compared to offshore full time development team

- Transparent (“aquarium” vs “black box”)

- Simplified accounting

- No problems to visit




ODC Features

- Servers as a technology and software engineering extension of customer’s main facility

- Allows the customer to focus on business specific while admin routines are being resolved by the outsourcing services vendor

- Customer’s 100% ownership

- Staff replacement within from a week to a month, no special costs




ODC Flip sides and challenge

- Require an intensive communication due to large geographic distances; poor communication makes ODC use it resources inefficiently and increase overall costs

- Requires regular assessment of the team to perform necessarily HR adjustments

- ODC members are not native English speakers in the most cases.

- May require additional trainings in customer’s business domain

- Time difference




ODC Flip sides and challenge

- The customer may need to get familiar with local HR market, their specific, levels of salaries and professionalism to make effective HR decisions if he want to.

- Startups are often don’t have solid development process the outsourcing vendor has to analyze, recommend and implement…

- Roles and responsibilities - Just enough documentation - Agile development, if required

- Average time to hire talents

- Middle level engineer: 1 - 2 weeks - Senior engineer: 2 - 4 weeks - High level leader: 3 - 8 weeks




ODC Creation steps

- Discuss and create an estimation for the monthly budget.

- Consider a particular model of building the team: - Hiring new ones or based on existing vendor’s employees or

mixed model.

- Figure out requirements for the talent expertise, identify the needs of:

- Permanent long term employees - Contractors for shorter periods of time

- Plan infrastructure

- Equipment workstations and servers - Office desks and space - Network equipment




ODC Creation steps (continued)

- Budget sign off

- Build a team: hiring process

- Set up knowledge transfer, requirements gathering process, training.

- Set up communication process: - Meeting scheduler - Reporting - Personal communications

- Set up workflows, management systems

- Achieve success




Budget components

- Salaries, bonuses

- Office space costs

- Collective taxes

- Telecommunications costs

- Bank expenses

- A fee to the vendor




Budget components, estimate




Sample costs dynamics of a startup




ODC Service levels


What the customer can do: - Review all and any costs, costs analyses, suggestions

and negotiations for cost reductions or additional expenses.

- HR activities such as: - Conduct interviews - Make hire decisions - Make firing decisions - Motivate - bonuses

- Project management: yes, if customer wishes,

and may be hidden if the customer wants so

- Visit ODC: yes, any time



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