This method of Outsourcing gives you control over the work, but save you from the overheads of managing a team working at our location.
This mode is sometime referred to as Time and Material Mode (T & M Mode).

When is Managed Outsourcing Right?

• When the requirements of system are clear.
• When the change control system is well defined.
• You do not have the management resource to manage the team based at our location.
• You are only interested in the overall picture at the end of the day and not interested in details of each member of the team.
• You want to have design ownership of the project.
• You want to decide the priorities at top level, rather than at each person’s level.
• The project does not involve a complex and large project team.
• You want to keep to a fixed budget and have dedicated resources for your project.

How Managed Outsourcing Works.

Sometimes, top level priority on a project is sufficient, without needing to be involved with the detailed management of the dedicated resources. At Prakash, we will assign a project manager to your project to manage the details of the team based upon your set of priorities. You remain the driving force and in control of the deliverables of the project, but the majority of your time is still available to continue on other parts of your business. This is a perfect model for temporarily increasing your team without the additional overheads of initiation, training, statutory requirements, etc. while still leaving you with the time to manage your current business as you currently do.

Benefits

• Ease of operation, without the fear of cost overrun.
• Lower project management overheads.
• Ease of resource scheduling.
• Dedicated resources with high levels of productivity.
• No hiring costs.
• No statutory compliance is required.
• Guaranteed availability of resources, including if an increase in team number is required at short notice.
• Ensures well documented system and total control over execution.
• Round the clock development across different time zones.
• You will be working with a company that has IT as its primary business, which means that the project can be managed more efficiently and effectively.

Overheads

• A change control system needs to be in place to manage project requirements.
• As a client, the tracking of resources is important as it is directly linked with the cost of each project.

PSSPL's Experience with Managed Outsourcing

Business Case

Data warehousing application.

Business Challenge

• The project is the core of the business and this product has to meet complex business requirements of Fortune 500 clients.
• Each client is unique and needs specific customization in data analysis and reports.
• Due to continuous changes in project fixed pricing of the project is not possible.
• The client has an in-house development and QA team which needs to work in tune with the outsourced team; thus full project management of the outsourced team is not possible.
• The project requires continuous resource availability as the services have to be supported offshore.
• To gain more control over development and to reorient team much faster, the client has decided to go with managed outsourcing.

Solution

Prakash provided its technical expertise through the deployment of highly experience and qualified software engineers with the following expertise:

• Microsoft Active server pages.
• Visual Basic.
• Microsoft SQL Server 2000.
• Visual C++.
• Microsoft C#.net.
• Microsoft ASP.net.

Prakash setup an exclusive facility for the client at our delivery centre, with dedicated resources and with different policies to suit the client’s requirements. The selection of team members was based on dual interview processes whereby both Prakash and the client interview all potential resources.

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