Welcome to Coders | Can smaller-scale outsourcing be the answer?

It´s a tough financial environment and the mid-term outlook is just as bleak. Budgets are at best constrained: and even when you can find budget, new staff recruitment is often frozen. The pressure on IT to both squeeze costs and yet deliver more is relentless.

Can smaller-scale outsourcing be the answer?
Click to see how Coders are working with these clients to deliver value:

THE RUSHMORE GROUP

SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT
& SERVICES COMPANY

The business advantages of the wholesale outsourcing of large projects and entire departmental functions are well known, tried and tested. But deriving these benefits from smaller outsourcing contracts can prove elusive. By and working with the right partner and choosing appropriate and discrete elements of today’s workload, small outsourcing contracts can:

free your core programmers to focus on new functionality by relieving them from mundane bug-fixing and routine maintenance of your current systems;
provision cost-effective support of legacy systems with minimal impact on strategic projects;
support your drive to meet code drop deadlines by applying additional programming resource to a particular development initiative;
unburden you of the ‘groundhog day’ experience of repeatedly training up junior staff or temps to perform admin, clerical and basic technical tasks;
let you provide extended-hours operational, support desk and other administration support, without breaking the bank;
realise the business benefits of your projects more quickly by providing skilled white collar administrators to back-fill functional gaps in the early phases of application roll-out;
allow you to add more resources without the constraints of headcount freezes through payment from other financial sources;
and avoid the headache and timescale delays of a local recruitment process.
Quite simply deliver more output and value from your budgets and core personnel.

Realising the benefits of outsourcing in smaller projects.

Unfortunately the management overhead of procuring and overseeing small outsourcing contracts (which as a rule of thumb we take to be the equivalent of 2 – 8 full time personnel) have often eclipsed these benefits: the new burden of managing third party resources – and the perceived concomitant risk – has made them seem not worth the effort. But it needn’t be so!

By working with our clients to identify suitable projects, helping them develop the business case, and creating a tailored plan to dovetail our people into their environment Coders has enjoyed a series of successful long-term relationships and outsourcing contracts across a range of IT and business skills and disciplines. Small-scale outsourcing can work.

Seeing is believing! Where Coders is making it work.

Read how we´re relieving programmers of the burden of bug-fixing and maintenance at the Meteorological Service of New Zealand; how we deliver a complete application, IT infrastructure, service delivery and business administration service to the Rushmore Group and Housingnet; and how a software development company benefits from access to a team of on-call programming resources. And, of course, there are many other experiences from a host of smaller businesses over the years.

Let´s talk.

We´re confident that we can help you with your budget and resourcing challenges: it´s often just a matter of uncovering where and how best to do it. Have a dig around our site, and email us at info@codersltd.com or call Jonathan Gibbs on 07786 333019 to start the discussion.