Scenario

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Merger and Acquisition evaluations

Platform and vendor
selection and oversight

Budget constraints and
changes in direction

Rapid Growth within
your company and team

Preparation and execution of outsourcing plans

THE PROBLEM

Your peers wonder why you aren't using an outsourcing firm for some of your projects. Indeed, you've started to wonder yourself if you could save money and get a higher quality product. You've never worked with outsourcers, but you certainly hear of success stories from friends at other firms. How do you introduce outsourcing to your IT group? How do you prepare your organization and your development processes to integrate outsourced development? What do you need to do to your platform and code base and documentation to make outsourcing as safe, productive, and reliable as in-house development? What are the best candidates for your first outsourcing project and how can you ensure its success?

THE SOLUTION

Inventivity offers custom services to address issues relating to outsourcing for IT and software development. Our efforts are based on our experiences outsourcing, managing outsourced and remote teams, and performing project management to support the use of outside vendors. We have experience with external vendors and we can help you plan your use of outsourcing to save time and money without adding risk as well as helping you locate and select an outsourcing partner.

THE PROCESS

An outsourcing engagement begins, as with all our engagements, with a shared understanding of your goals for the process. Every engagement is different in the details and we need to understand your goals in order to meet your needs.

Next, we work with the technology leadership and the executives to identify internal tools and processes that will need to change to support outsourcing and to select candidate projects which can and should be outsourced initially to develop outsourcing skills and experience within the IT organization. We work to build processes that will allow you to track and measure the work performed outside your team to minimize risk.

Finally, with a project plan and an understanding of requirements, we dig in and help evaluate potential partners...finding a good cultural fit for your development style, and a team that has the skills to execute on the chosen project(s).

While our recommendations are a tremendous source of value, we don't avoid the difficult tasks. We can help direct the outsourced vendor and monitor the results, ensuring that your first project is a success and planting the organizational seeds for future success.

THE RESULT

A smaller and more effective technology organization, skilled in managing outside vendors, with a solid project process and documented approaches to ensuring that those projects are well-documented and ready for external vendors to implement.

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