The demand of offshore software development team/company can be seen increased over the last few years. Now companies are looking for the offshoring partners to offload their work for custom application development and also want to achieve cost effective advantages. But the question remains same Whom to offshore?
Many companies offshore their work just to save the cost. But if you select wrong partner for offshoring then not only you will get low quality outcomes but all your effort will be waste and end up frustrated for your offshoring decision.
While taking offshoring solution to ensure the sucess, you must:
1) Make sure that your offshoring partner and his team understand all the major/minor business requirement, functional requirement and the importance of your project objectives.
2) Architecture: Architecture serve as a base for any project. Any one can do coding but to build a robuts application which not only provides the functionality but capable of handeling user loads and future enhancements is the real challange.
3) Make sure that the offshoring team is well qualified and have an established communication process
4) Self assessment of the project is very important.
5) Always discuss about your projects status with your team and give and take suggestion to/from offshoring partner to improve the quality. getting involved in project management is important.
hope this helps you in finalizing you offshore development partner.