It’s 2023, the media is flushed with stories of economic hardship, companies cutting staffing and budgets. Your challenge as an Engineering Manager, Product Manager or Project Manager is this: To continue delivering value to your customers with staff and budget cuts.
Software Engineering Outsourcing
Outsourcing software development can be a cost-effective way for companies to access skilled talent and bring their products to market faster. However, it is important to carefully plan and manage the outsourcing process to ensure a smooth and successful project.
But you already knew that!
Companies across North America have indicated these are the top 2 issues keeping them awake at night:
- Timezone differences.
- Communication barriers.
To elaborate, working with a team in a different time zone and potentially with different cultural backgrounds can lead to misunderstandings and communication breakdowns. To mitigate these issues, it is important to establish clear lines of communication and establish protocols for regular check-ins and updates. If not properly managed, the end result is every manager’s biggest nightmare, unclear requirements for the development team.
The Secret Sauce To Outsourcing Software Development
High performing companies and managers in Canada and the USA tasked with blitzscaling their business have moved away from outsourcing to far away countries like India for their engineering talent.
Instead they are finding talent nearby. Native English speaking engineers operating in North America & the English speaking Caribbean is the trend seen across the tech industry.
Companies like Quantum Chaos LLC provide fullstack engineers operating in GMT-4 making meetins a breeze. Further, the entire team is English speaking. No more accents and requirements getting lost in translation.