Offshore Development Center

Offshore Development Center (ODC) is a dedicated development center built for a particular customer to meet its requirement of developing, testing and maintenance work. It is a proved method to expand customer's developing capability with low cost, high quality and low risk. This model is best for:

  • Long term cooperation between service provider and customer
  • Software product research and development/large scale software system developing and maintenance

The feature of ODC:

  • Offshore operation, located outside of the client's country
  • Dedicated team built according to customer's requirement
  • Time and Material business model
  • Isolated working zone and separated network if required
  • Work driven by statement of work from client

With Ufida Software Engineering (USE)'s ODC model, we deliver measurable benefits: Cost savings, development cycle decrease, productivity increase and etc. Combine mature processes, start-of-the-art technology, high quality and seasoned project teams, USE provide the best ODC services to customers.

Our ODC process:

Assessment

In this step, we help customer fully understand the issues and risks. We will define what projects are fit for outsourcing and which engagement model is good for customers. Also we need to identify all the risks and find the solution for them.

Build

  • Plan

    We will provide a list of plans after we analyze the project requirement, which will be the guideline of our further work.

  • Infrastructure & Facilities

    We provide infrastructure and facilities to meet our customer's need by giving them our proposal based on the project requirement.

  • Staffing

    We provide a dedicated team for our customers. Based on the project requirement, we decide the team organization structure. The responsibility and activities of every role are also defined. We have a mature process to prepare resources.

  • Knowledge Transfer

    Even it might have extra cost involved, good and consistent training will contribute greatly to the outsourcing success. If the off-shore engineers are lack of knowledge about the project and origins, the outsourcing project will become a disaster. It is extremely hard for engineers working on unfamiliar industry. Four types of Knowledge transfer: Skill, Process, Domain, Work specifications and culture norms.

  • Pilot Project

    Doing pilot project is an effective way to reduce risks, especially for two companies cooperate at the first time. A pilot project must have the reasonable size. It would be useless if it is so small whereas the very large one is not appropriate for a test. A pilot period normally last from couple of weeks to three months, typically one month. For the pilot project, measurement and tracking need to be conducted. Some intermediate products are generated such as detail designs, prototypes to track performance, etc. The following criteria are used to measure the overall performance:

    • Quality, both technical (e.g. number of bugs) and functional (e.g. if it meets specification)
    • Cost and productivity
    • Project communication

  • Responsibility transfer

    For a new project, the most important thing is transferring responsibilities from PM of the client to counterpart of UFIDA.

    For on-going project, our methodology is to transfer the responsibilities peer to peer. The best time for transferring core development task is after transfer is finished completely, when the team is stable and the operating is smooth.

Operation

Statement of Work (SOW) guides the operation of ODC. When ODC receives the SOW, the project team analyzes it first and discusses with customer till customers make sure we fully understand the SOW. After that, the effort estimation will be given and submitted to customer. If objected, a new cycle discussion will be incurred until an agreement is reached. Also, we will set up our work plan in terms of this SOW, which should be approved by customers. During the implementation and test phases, we deliver codes and reports everyday. When the work of SOW is completed, customer will execute the UAT according to the defined criteria. If failed, we will investigate and rework it.

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