The world is full of opportunities and with new
opportunities coming up every second, starting up an offshore software
development facility has never been easier. Clients look for offshore software developmentcompanies because they get their software created effectively at lower costs.
For example: United States and other developed countries are increasingly lured
to look at India for their software needs because of the promising offshore
software development firms that get the job done at considerably lower rates.
Reduced development costs with intelligent minds: who would not go for the
combination? You must be thinking that if it is that ‘easy’ to open an offshoresoftware development centre then why doesn’t everyone do it? It’s because
opening an offshore development facility requires special attention and focus
to some crucial factors. I will give a step by step process to start up an
offshore development company:
1. Understand the business: Ask the people who have already
done it or still doing it. They will tell you all about the business. Learn
from their experience and insights and be sure that you want to get into the
business after studying about it thoroughly.
2. Decided? Alright now, let us move forward. What would you
like to do as an offshore development facility? Do you want to operate on JAVA
or create well-formed databases? If you have overseas contracts on a particular
technology then it’s alright, otherwise you may have to get that thought
process running, and think about what you actually want to develop and sell.
3. Now that you are sure about the technology, you may want
to gather some people with you. Mostly graduates and diploma holders. There are some fronts that you may need
to clearly think about: Who will plan? Who will develop? Who will test? And
finally, who will support? Apart from all this, you may want to hire a Program Manager who can take charge of the projects for you, and if you are the one
‘qualified’ then nothing can beat that.
4. Last but not the least part is ‘procuring clients’. The
only way to get clients is to promote your skills. Make a blog or a website; promote your company Create
a marketing team and a sales team. Throw mails around and reply to them.
Develop a whole ecosystem of earning and procuring new clients.
You must be thinking that I did not talk about
infrastructure. That’s because you don’t need one. You can start it in your
garage for god’s sake with a load of LAN connections.
All you need is high
speed internet and skilled associates and you are good to go. Of course once you
have it established and business grows, you might want to move in to a bigger
office with all the necessary infrastructure to boot.
