Developers outsourcing

Chief Information Officers have different attitudes towards outsourcing. Some of them consider using the services of an external software developer as a great solution, others as a necessary evil, and other ones do not care about this cooperation model, because they form their own dev teams and do not want to delegate any work outside. […]

Grzegorz Papaj, 4 February 2019

Body leasing or outsourced programming

Body leasing (employee leasing) is a form of collaboration with an IT company and outsourced programming or competence outsourcing are ways to extend the company’s IT department. IT duties can be also delegated to HR agencies, but then companies aren’t contracted with any particular software development company. There is also a solution called team leasing, […]

Grzegorz Papaj, 3 December 2018

Cooperation models

Cooperation with developers in implementation and deployment of software becomes necessity as a result of increasing computerization demand. Following article describes cooperation models with programming company. Businesses usually cooperate with software development companies in two models: fixed price and outsourcing T&M (Time and Materials). Both solutions have advantages and disadvantages. Fixed price Fixed price model […]

Piotr Lewandowski, 7 September 2018

IT outsourcing

IT outsourcing is a popular service – approximately half of the companies on the market use it. The most frequently provided IT services include the development of dedicated software, desktop or mobile applications, maintenance, database services, management of IT infrastructure, and help desk services. But what are the advantages of outsourcing? Many industries offer outsourcing […]

Grzegorz Papaj, 9 August 2018

The maintenance

Some companies tend to maintain their old IT systems, often in outdated technologies. The maintenance and migration of such systems are not easy tasks, as they involve several important decisions. As developers experienced in old technologies may sometimes leave a company, there is a high risk of losing support and development ability. Also, the software […]

Piotr Lewandowski, 2 May 2018