STA’s Domestic Outsourcing (also called Onshore Outsourcing) model emerged as a low-cost, domestic alternative to offshore outsourcing. Our clients, with experience in the setbacks of offshore outsourcing, turned to us for an easy, low-cost outsourcing solution with vastly higher quality.
Offshore resources have their place but, for application development, a higher level of skill and ability to interface with the client is required. Complex requirements, changing needs, integration challenges and aggressive timelines can be better met by an advanced development team that can closely integrate within the client. We offer Domestic Outsourcing.
STA Group recruits and retains the highest-caliber, experienced developers and we leverage the Agile development methodology to provide quality results, on time and on budget. We can provide small to large teams and can locate them at a client location or at our Chicago offices.
There are many challenges, often without real solutions, to the “offshore” model. Consider your business context: Can your offshore team understand and synthesize your business’ complex objectives and context? Will they be able to put themselves in the position of your customers to anticipate and infer requirements that are unclear or aren’t explicitly stated? Requirements will never be clear enough that a development team can work in isolation from your business.
Are you agile? Are your onshore teams practicing Scrum? What impact will separating developers from each other—or separating them from your business—by 7-14 time zones have on a software development process whose core tenant is close, constant and “osmotic” communication?
Consider your employees’ Work/Life Balance: The market for talented software engineers is exceedingly competitive—and it’s predicted to stay that way for the foreseeable future. Meetings that start at dawn and don’t end until late in the evening drive your best people to your strongest competitors.
