In the context of nearshore outsourcing, it’s clear its effectiveness in enhancing collaboration, scalability, and performance. Every day, organizations struggle to optimize their operations to gain faster development cycles. Otherwise, they risk losing ground to a competitor due to a lack of specialized talent. Working with someone who can deliver what you need is rare. Luckily, there’s a solution. We call it Nearshore Portugal!

How can nearshore outsourcing improve your time to market? This is what you need to know!

From the top

In a competitive market, organizations should focus on reducing their time to market. This means decreasing as much as possible the duration between developing the product and putting it on the market. Businesses that become faster and more responsive to customers’ needs and demands can quickly become ahead of their competitors and evolve to top leaders.

In order to achieve this, changes must be made and new procedures acquired. It all comes down to a collaboration methodology. In other words, workflow efficiency. An optimized approach that becomes a time to market accelerator and this is how!

Communication Experts

As in any business, especially in the IT industry, staying agile is a must. In other words, communication is crucial for agile software development. This means being accessible whenever you need your team at any given moment of the workday so if potential issues or unforeseen adjustments happen, it can be dealt with immediately. In contrast, this isn’t possible with offshoring.

If your team is based in India and you’re in Germany, there is a big-time zone difference that will compromise communications, schedules, and team efficiency. Offshore doesn’t just compromise any type of Agile principles, it eliminates them altogether.

Of course, an Agile approach doesn’t exclusively focus on improving collaboration. It allows for faster and efficient work methodologies. With Agile, QA and developers test the software at various stages of project development instead of at the end of the project while building new features and testing. Naturally, this is massively improved when there are expertise and a shared time zone. Plus, increased efficiency means less need for resources which equals less investment.

As you might have guessed, all of this decreases delays and improves time to market.

At Nearshore Portugal, we work with organizations across Europe. This gives us a strong cultural understanding of the many enterprises we work with. Allowing us to deliver a custom-made approach to nearshore solutions. More than delivering the talent you need, we focus on augmenting your in-house IT staff. Through specialized developers experienced in the agile way, filling the skills gap in your team. Thus, resulting in greater performance and, once again, faster time to market.

The new Outsourcing

Although outsourcing throughout the years has been about lowering costs, not all providers shifted to new practices. More than just cost-saving, we believe in combining improved processes, augmenting capabilities that only the nearshore approach can deliver. As your partner, beyond being handed tasks or requirements from customers, our approach is about finding a team that works effectively as an extension of your own in-house IT staff. In other words, we don’t just focus on talent, we find the right people for your project. Professionals that combine hard and soft skills needed that adjust to your company culture and goals.

Although no one knows with complete certainty the future of IT outsourcing, some predictions can be made. Better yet, specific tendencies become more visible. With the sudden lockdown across industries due to the COVID-19 pandemic, remote working has shown its many advantages and adaptability. This new adjustment has proven what was already known by many, that remote workers continue to produce at high levels with little disruption, without comprising results, efficiency, and communication. This means customers can gain access to expert developers at competitive rates without having to concern themself with office space, recruitment, and so on.

At the end of the day, the key advantage of nearshore outsourcing is the innovation it can offer. By working with Nearshore Portugal, you’ll gain access to a partner with market experience and the needed knowledge to take your operation to the next level with the support of a seasoned pool of tech talent, fully committed and specialized in the latest technological languages.

If you’re wondering where you can find all your software development, design, cloud, and DevOps needs in one place.. You just did!

Did you like this article? Get to know our Team extension model

When it comes to adding specific tech talent to your existing in-house IT team, the team extension model has become the first choice for my companies. However, some companies choose a “Do It Yourself”. An approach that can become costly since the talent they seek, in general cases, has specific skills. In other words, it takes time and effort to find these people. A process that can become costly, even more, if the company doesn’t have a dedicated team of tech recruiters.

So, what can you do if you need to add new people to your existing team of developers but you don’t want to deal with the extensive hiring process? Nearshore Portugal is the answer!

As a leading company offering Nearshore development services, we focus on finding the right fit for your business. To achieve this, we’ve developed a successful approach, a business model for companies of all sizes. Nearshore Portugal, as a Nearshore software outsourcing provider, operates a team extension model. Considered one of the most reliable and convenient models when you already have developers in your in-house team.

What is the Team Extension Model?

When planning to work with a Nearshore outsourcing provider, such as Nearshore Portugal, the team extension model is a great way to operate in a more direct and tight business partnership as it enhances productivity and improves communication. In essence, a team extension model focuses on augmenting your in-house IT staff with experienced and specialized developers that fill the skills gap in your team, providing you with greater control over the project.

Once you have at your disposal the desired talent, approved in advance by you through an involvement in the recruitment process, you gain operational control. In other words, the developers become your resources to manage by you, with our support. Although a paid service provided by us, they become part of your company, its culture, methodologies, practices and vision.

At Nearshore Portugal, we optimize this model by creating teams with outstanding tech talent. Developed with the desired know-how and experience needed to surpass challenges, improving your time to market. Through our model based on constant support, advice, and transparency established on open and direct communication, we have become partners of international brands in the forefront of their fields.

Key advantages of the Team Extension Model

Among the benefits mentioned above, by blending your need for seasoned professionals with the talent pool of Nearshore Portugal, not only will you gain a competitive edge over the competition, but will at the same time acquire several other advantages:

• Allocate responsibilities and tasks as you see fit to enhance team effectiveness;
• Scale your team as needed, with the possibility of additional resources being provided at short notice;
• Members of the extended team work closely with your in-house staff. This enhances the building of your product with the same commitment, while teams share the same responsibilities;
• You define the direction, resources, and schedule;
• Experience faster time to market;
• Gain greater transparency and efficient communication among teams by eliminating the middleman;
• The remote development team will have access to the latest equipment, working from a modern office;

By working with a partner such as Nearshore Portugal with a developed team extension model, you’ll achieve greater speed, productivity and reliability. While at the same time, removing any straining from your internal team of developers.  When it comes to software outsourcing, it all comes down to an experienced Nearshore provider with the right track-record.

So if you’re looking to scale your team in the most efficient way, we would love to hear from you and discuss your project needs via skype!