Dedicated Development Team vs. Team Extension: What is Right for Your Project?
Companies often refer to outsourcing in order to deal with business challenges, such as skill gaps, costly development, and maintenance burden. According to the Deloitte 2021 Global Shared Services and Outsourcing Survey, 88% of companies decide to outsource to perceive cost reduction, 78% – standardization and process efficiency, and 63% – business value.
Outsourcing, in general, does not solve all of these problems simultaneously. It comes with several service models that have necessary capacity to address different needs. The two most popular outsourcing models – a dedicated team and team extension – vary in problems they solve, resources they draw, the nature of cooperation, and price.
Yet, a decision about whether to go with a dedicated team or to hire some developers from your outsourcing vendor’s side should not be made solely based on the cheapest paycheck. Your service model should be in line with your needs. Otherwise, you run the risk of paying twice: first, for the option you thought was the right one for you and then for the one that actually was.
This is why we are going to discuss today the differences between a dedicated team and a team extension outsourcing model and how to choose the one that works best for you!
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SapientPro: Accomplishments from 2021 and Aspirations for 2022
2021 was a year full of achievements for our company. We applied some administrative changes, made a greater focus on skill development and talent education, started using new tech, completed four rounds of vaccinations, and more. This post includes a complete summary of 2021 and our plans for 2022.
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A 7-step Guide to Effective Project Management
Even if you put together a team of the best specialists with a deep sense of responsibility and accountability, your project will not succeed without project management. Why? Because a project is much more than just assigning and checking tasks. Teams face a range of communication issues, dependencies, deadlines that are missed, unclear task descriptions, as well as questions about goals. Ultimately, if they have to manage all of it themselves, they will not have time to code, test, or design.
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How to build a successful development team? (Part 2)
You have already got acquainted with the aspects of first and foremost importance related to forming a successful development team. Let’s proceed with our journey and dwell upon the matter of adequate maintenance of the enhancement team on a certain level. Which characteristics and skills should remain firm with the flow of time?
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How to build a successful development team? (Part 1)
Does a successful team equal to a successful project? Practically everyone who once was involved with project making and contributing to the software development field wants to know the answer to this question. No matter what the right answer is, the art of building a strong and powerful team is still on the agenda. So let’s dig deeper and find out the constituents of a successful development team which will lead your project to the favourable outcome.
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Communication in the software development workplace
IT office jungles are filled with computer forests, cable lianas, and rivers of coffee. The temperature varies between 24 and 27, depending on who keeps the conditioner remote control. The sunlight mainly comes from computer screens and lightbulbs. Developers are working like bees: they take the pollen of code and create honeycombs of apps. It is a beautiful environment filled with the magical power of innovation, creativity, and agility. However, this ecosystem only works if there is one more component. Communication.
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Creation, management and support of your remote team
With a remote team, you get flexibility as a ground for your work. You get the freedom of choice in terms of expenditure and technology stack. You can hire devs from East Europe and they will deliver you the same productivity as the coders from your countries, still, with a vast difference in price (in your favor). With remote workers all over the continents, your company gets another way of entering foreign markets.
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Remote team: a brief instruction of how to create and manage one
Remote is a new black today, in the times of crisis. Those industries that couldn’t bring their work to the Internet suffer from losses of income. If you are lucky enough, chances are — you already have a team of remote workers. Why does the remote team make you lucky You have access to global talents as you are not limited by your area of residence. You can hire people according to the qualification you need for your project. Often, in your city devs may not specialize in what you require. You can collaborate with devs from different countries and their hourly rate will differ, which makes it easier to choose a team according to your budget.
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Our first experience at SapientPro. The Founders (Part 2)
SapientPro is a place where there are no bosses and a strict hierarchy. However, it all began somehow, right? We call them "the Founders" because they initiated the creation of the company. Their first days in the company, are the first days of the company.
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Best team chat apps for your company
The group chat app is an easy-to-reach meeting room. Workers can get there by unblocking the phone and clicking on the messenger icon.
Top 5 Best Group Chat Software for the Workplace are Telegram, Slack, Microsoft Teams, Hangouts and Signal.
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New Year’s celebration: Code sapiently, party like a pro.
Each year there is a special day when SapientPro IT guys close their laptops. They stop sending the “Android vs iPhone” memes to the chat. Their wives hide their computer mice and chargers. SapientPro`s New Year party has come. It's time to let some steam off.
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