We found that up to 50% of custom software development initiatives fail. For CTOs and tech managers, this age-old issue is a nightmare. The most significant challenges are driven by rapidly changing technologies and multiple internal factors. Among others, your development team must have the necessary capacity, knowledge and skills, infrastructure and a clear roadmap to overcome all the foreseeable problems. This post reviews the most typical challenges of internal developments and introduces MNDWRK as your revolutionary IT outsourcing partner.

The challenges leading down the path to project outsourcing

Customer needs and desires are rapidly shifting and undoubtedly raising the bar on the market ever so slightly. As a result, your organization must leverage one another to provide agile, scalable and adoptable new technology in rapid succession. This is especially true when it comes to IT and R&D.

Imagine your organization is about to develop a new piece of tech. Throughout countless meeting sessions with the stakeholders, you finally have a general idea of the expected outcome but face difficulties regarding the “How to get there?” part. This is not necessarily due to a lack of competence but because of the same old challenges every business face when it comes to realizing something completely new:

• time constraints averting your team from gaining the necessary skills,
• unseen expenses popping up unexpectedly as you move forward,
• resource shortages forcing you to make painful infrastructural investments, and 
• quality shortcuts preventing full project realization just to meet deadlines.

To mitigate these challenges, you might consider repurposing internal teams, but this usually comes with a lot of trial-and-error and takes away precious resources from other areas without success guaranteed.

The other solution is hiring additional experts who know how to do the job. But even this is no longer that simple as the so-called traditional employee model is becoming less and less attractive to engineers. The new generation goes where they get what they need. And they need:

• freedom to choose where and how to work on,
• ownership to focus on key components,
• transparency to see the whole picture,
• and variety to face and overcome new and exciting challenges.

They want to team up and work with people they know and trust, like former colleagues and classmates. (That's why hundreds of them join our community daily as nimble work squads.)

In addition, managing the design, creation, resources and market presence of any new digital project nowadays is extremely difficult as all these components must be produced, facilitated and maintained by the same organization.

IT Outsourcing benefits

Project outsourcing is essential in various industries, but software development is the most discussed. Typical advantages of outsourcing include scalability, easier access to subject matter experts, lower costs and the ability to focus resources on core business development. No doubt, most businesses outsource their IT projects to save money, however. 

Contracts with outsourcing agencies are great for acquiring a desired adaptive IT workforce. IT contracts offer a workforce with adequate competence in the amount and duration necessary for projects. In addition, IT contracts are easily scalable if the circumstances demand them.

The closer proximity of nearshore teams can have additional benefits, including the reduction of cultural differences, easier accessibility, more flexibility and cost-efficiency, all resulting in faster time to market. This is where MNDWRK, the largest nearshore and digital service hub in East-Central Europe, comes into the picture.

About MNDWRK

MNDWRK is a pioneering initiative to revolutionize how IT experts form an exceptionally flexible organization to deliver outstanding quality and velocity. We at MNDWRK, developed the prototype of the next-generation IT company, designed for engineers by engineers, running on a blockchain infrastructure. We orchestrate a cross-border community of IT agencies, freelancers, and job seekers. We provide access to over 100+ well-established development squads, ten thousand individual engineers and a hub for 30+ IT service providers from the eastern part of the EU.

MNDWRK provides top-of-the-line IT specialists in all major fields, including mobile and web development, Big Data, DevOps, business automation, customer experience (UX/UI), and CMS implementation. As an agile community, we offer flexible models to suit your every need, such as project outsourcing, team augmentation, BOT (Build - Operate - Transform) and remote workforce recruiting. By acting as a middle ground between your company and our talents, our goal is to ensure that there is always the right person for the job who can produce fast and cost-efficient results.

MNDWRK - The best partner in building an adaptive IT workforce

Most IT agencies provide their “flexible” services via their employees, which is a relatively rigid and expensive approach with no possibility of exceeding headcount limitations. In contrast, MNDWRK facilitates a vivid community of IT freelancers, an ocean of experts, where employee headcounts do not bind availability and capacity.

We are pioneering a new form of company structure. MNDWRK is an agile and flexible organization by design, capable of providing the IT workforce you need with never-seen-before conditions.

During each project, our primary focus is to:

1. Understand your challenges,
2. Identify the right solution
3. Allocate the best squads,
4. Ensure project delivery,
5. and Reward performance.

Our key values:

• we understand not just the general IT landscape but the entire IT ecosystem,
• we provide the best individuals and squads to get your project rolling, 
• we know how to ensure smooth go-to-market processes all the way through, and
• We guarantee fast, efficient and cost-effective results for your organization.

If you are looking for ways to outsource a dev project, perform team augmentation or recruit a remote workforce, feel free to get in touch.