The IT, or information technology, industry, has seen the most developments in the last decade. The earliest IT companies had a hard time hiring software developers, DevOps engineers, on-boarding them, and managing them. However, the latter companies took a turn and started hiring IT outsourcing service providers.
Before delving deeper into the benefits of product development outsourcing, we should know what the “term” means. It is, in fact, the practise of using offshore product Lifecycle management teams outside the organisation to handle product engineering functions. The functions include high performance software development team, cloud infrastructure engineering, DevOps management, QA engineering, Data engineering, Data Scientists, Fractional CTO and Business Analyst for communication or error rectification, and much more. Now the pertinent question that comes to mind is – what are the benefits of outsourcing product development, and cloud DevOps daily IT operations management?
The major reasons for cloud operation outsourcing becoming popular are low cost, high-quality skilled resource availability, and ease of expanding development services. Also, hiring experienced developers is one of the major costs, and while development operations are outsourced, this cost can be minimized.
Advantages of Outsourcing Development Operations and Cloud Management
- Reduced Cost: It is a well-known fact that the cost of product development varies substantially region-wise. This is due to the lower cost of living in some areas, which leads to lower cloud infrastructure support costs and lower hourly rate salaries for the software developers. This significantly reduces software development operational costs and is one of the primary reasons for outsourcing entire product engineering functions to lower-cost-of-living locations.
- A Bigger Talent Pool—While hiring a AWS cloud engineering team or software developer in a particular region, the talent pool is limited. This is due to the tendency of humans to live in areas that they know. A smaller number of skilled engineers can lead to resource strain and the inability to match the job to the person chosen. Sometimes it so happens that for a project, more developers or entire development team have to be hired to cover the skills gaps. However, with product development outsourcing, the required skills can be picked up from anywhere across the globe and also at a better price-skill ratio. Moreover resources profiles are absolutely vetted and technically screened as per requirement.
- Running Around the Clock – With product development operation outsourcing, your business can operate around the clock with remote engineering teams from different time zones. This can help in managing the product better, swift product features releases, proactive incident and request management. With just a bit of time management, this can be a golden opportunity to support 24×7 product support operations.
- Way to Save Precious Time – A lot of time can be invested in hiring and managing software development team. This time can be used to do tasks that can lead to the further development of the organisation, market exploration and identifying potential clients. By outsourcing the product development services, you can get the assured production stability and best IT services by investing the least amount of time.
- Increases the ability to Upscale – The most difficult challenge when working with an in-house team is upscale to meet the needs of new clients. This can lead to a loss of business and clients, which can impact the organisation in the long run. Outsourcing comes to the rescue in this case, as you will be able to hire a new engineering team in no time and upscale the operations to include client needs from new locations.
Thus, the way to go forward is to outsource entire product engineering operations, as it is not only the best way to reduce product development cost but also the best way to increase your price-quality and price-skill ratio. At Checkmate Global Technologies, we provide you with an advantage and help you go big!
Author Details: This is blog is written by Amit Kumar, Head of engineering from Checkmate Global Technologies. You can reach out to him to learn more about effective cloud Infrastructure management strategies.
