Offshore software development has brought about a sea change in the field of software development. This pertains to development of software applications at a development center away from the client's primary location of business. Offshore development of software projects has emerged as a viable, cost-effective alternative for addressing a host of IT related issues. Outsourcing software development frees increasingly scarce in-house resources for strategically significant management, design and development tasks, while ensuring day-to-day IT responsibilities are met. Head quartered in Lebanon, rooteam is a software house, offering such software solutions.

Allow us to walk you through the process and benefits of offshore software development services. This document has been laid out in the following manner:

• The offshore software development Process
• Benefits of offshore software development
• Types of projects suitable for offshore software development
• Criteria for selection of offshore partner
• Offshore software outsourcing
• Why rooteam?

The Offshore Software Development Process

In Offshore software development, the following process is followed

• The client prepares functional specifications of the software application to be developed
• Technical design is frozen by the client with the help of the offshore development partner
• Based on the clients requirements a project plan, indicating the milestones and deliverables, is prepared by the development partner
• Development work is carried out at the offshore development facility of the outsource service provider
• Periodic updates on the milestones defined, are provided to the client
• Thus in effect the client actually extends his in-house software development department to the service provider's development center. The presence of proper communication link to the development center facilitates this virtual extension.

The Benefits of Offshore Software Development

• Cost Effective as it cuts costs by up to 50%
• Access to a state-of-the-art software development center without having to make any capital investment
• Access to a wider and deeper range of skills than may be available within the organization
• Lesser day-to-day management attention required than for an in-house project
• Time differentials enable offshore providers to make 24-hour workday a reality
• Rapid deployment of contract resources to meet peak project workloads

Types of projects suitable for offshore software development

• Routine maintenance for mature applications
• Maintenance of large-scale applications
• Maintenance of web systems
• Conversions and migrations to new platforms
• Re-engineering of existing applications for new environments
• Software where the Low Level design is already frozen

Criteria for Selection of Offshore Partner

The key to successful offshore outsourcing for your project lies in the selection of an experienced & technically qualified offshore software development service provider. This will help to identify the type of organization required to address today's increasingly challenging suite of IT projects. A project partner must satisfy a number of critical technology, management and business criteria such as:

• Management capabilities
• Relevant experience
• Communications infrastructure
• Quality assurance
• Manpower and technical resources
• Software development methodology
• Cost - to deliver on the project's quality, technical, scheduling and budgeting parameters.

Offshore Software Outsourcing - Why rooteam?

Project management Skills

rooteam has a qualified management team that uses a systematic approach to all projects undertaken. The project teams are organized based on

• Specific project management skills
• Tools and experience
• Familiarity with international management methods
• Business practices
• Communication capability for smooth flow of information
  

Project Management Methodology

• Deliverables and Work breakdown structure are clearly detailed.
• All projects employ clearly defined engineering processes that remain in place throughout the project cycle to provide continuous feedback to our project control office and the client.
• Clear goals are established for each project, making every team member from junior programmers to senior managers aware of project objectives, milestones and quality standards.
  

Quality Assurance

rooteam has a well-developed, tried and tested methodology of online testing and exhaustive modular testing which results in tight quality control.

Offshore Infrastructure

Our dedicated software development center in Lebanon, is well equipped with the latest Pentium PCs and Unix Servers. Emphasis on software and systems engineering ensures that the solutions we offer incorporate the best of platforms to suit your requirements. The center has an access to 24 hours Internet connectivity. This can be converted a to a point-to-point link to the client site if required.

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You will receive an immediate response to your enquiry if you send an email to sales@rooteam.com