Often, insecurity sets in when outsourcing product development to a 3rd party development company. If done right, the partnership will be very rewarding and will help you release quality products to market faster. In this post, I have covered 6 simple ways by which product outsourcing can be made successful.
6 simple ways to make your product development outsourcing successful
1. Six best simple ways to make your product development outsourcing successful
Often, insecurity sets in when outsourcing product development to a 3rd party
development company. If done right, the partnership will be very rewarding and will help
you release quality products to market faster. In this post, I have covered 6 simple ways
by which product outsourcing can be made successful.
Leverage an in-house architect who has control in specifying the roadmap for
your product development. Doing so will help you clear the requirements, build
the specification, determine what technology to use, and scope the architecture
so that it can be safely outsourced
Outsource development while keeping product definition, systems architecture
and quality assurance in-house
Keep it agile as this will allow the outsourcing organization to continue managing
the requirements and have the flexibility to change the requirements when
needed. The critical success factor here will be whether the development team is
able to deliver what it is committing for every iteration
Set expectations upfront and have timely communication. It’s also important to
ensure availability to communicate. This will help the project run smoothly and
make necessary adjustments
Define measurable project deliverables so that performance and quality can be
monitored
Share your product roadmap, customer inputs and customer successes with the
provider
Following these recommendations will allow you to keep control of the process and
quality of the project deliverables. Also keep in mind that there is a fair amount of
management bandwidth that will be absorbed on your end and this will never be
something you can outsource.
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