Increasingly ISVs and technology companies are confronted with capacity bottlenecks, and lack of technology talent with the requisite exposure in their native environments. As a result, they are unable to handle a multitude of challenges such as migration to a SaaS mode, up gradation of their technology stack, enhancement of product functionality and customization requests.

At the same time, ISVs are reluctant to resort to traditional IT outsourcing, as they are primarily worried about of lack of dedicated resources from the service providers, and also unsure about the efficacy of offshoring and distributed development in a product development environment. In this blog, we will share with you some of the relative advantages of dedicated teams as opposed to conventional IT outsourcing for ISVs service model:

	Traditional Outsourcing Model	Dedicated Team Model
Time-To-Market	Uncertain, dictated by the nature of engagement with the service provider	Guaranteed reduced time-to-market, as the customer is in complete control of the team, work flow and deliverables
Innovation & Capability	Low level of task based reactive output with little incentive for innovation	High performance, proactive teams capable of significant value addition in sync with the customers native team
Business Value	Low, very basic staff augmentation mode	High, direct contribution in delivering measurable business value to customer
Risk Mitigation	Difficult to anticipate and manage risks due to lack of visibility into service providers processes, team management, and resource movements	Easy, due to complete managerial control over people and processes and negligible risk of attrition and resource movement due to locked-in resources
Ownership/Span of control	Owned by service provider, low level of integration with customer’s team	Owned and managed by customer, complete integration with customer’s team
Engagement	Basic, and hands off	Mature, and collaborative
Success factors	Vendor selection, service provider’s maturity and retention of same team across delivery cycles	Team selection, product development know-how, and dedicated high performance teams
Contract Management	Significant attention to detail required in contract planning covering all aspects of the engagement, and adequate foresight needed to provide for contingencies	Simple, and easy to interpret contract based on “people+cost of shared services” model
Scope & Flexibility	Rigid, need clearly defined scope and deliverables from the customer	Flexible, driven by customer’s requirement and adaptable to changing business dynamics. Inbuilt agility, decide as-late-as possible and start as soon-as-possible
Team composition and quality	Dictated by the service provider	Controlled by the customer right from the recruitment process including roles and composition

As a founder, CEO, or CTO of an ISV, take advantage of dedicated team model in a distributed development model, gain additional development capacity, execute your product roadmap, and realize your business goals.

Advantages of Dedicated Teams over Traditional IT Outsourcing for ISVs

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