Are you tired of ongoing scrum meetings in the evening with your offshore team? Are you stressed about collaborating on something urgent and getting results until the next day due to the time zone differences? If that’s you, I have your solution to save time developing with a Nearshore DevOps Outsourcing team.
There are different ways to hire a DevOps team. It can be offshore, nearshore, or onshore, depending on your needs. If you’re thinking, “DevOps is too hard to find it locally, and even more in my area,” or “Is it possible to find DevOps at a low cost with exceptional quality? (compared to U.S DevOps Agencies). Let me tell you that nearshore outsourcing is what you have been looking for without noticing it!
You can reduce costs by outsourcing DevOps and sending your IT Team to Asia or Eastern Europe. But do you really need to sacrifice your lifestyle to work at night or at daybreak?
During my career, I’ve collaborated with over 100 IT teams around the globe, 70% offshore. Some of them as Lead DevOps, software architect, and cloud director. That being said, the collaboration between the offshore team and the customer is exhausting with the passing of weeks.
I’ve been there, and it’s just a nightmare. I have worked with dozens of web development agencies offshore, and it can be really exhausting for everyone: customers, offshore team, and us as DevOps. This means having scrum meetings, reproducing an error with screen-sharing, showing a demo, and having video calls at unwanted hours. Working with a team in different time zones comes with its own difficulties.
Another good example is when there is an emergency in the middle of the business day. Imagine that your AWS cloud application is down due to last night’s code deployment. Because of this, you have to wait for around 6-10 hrs for the offshore team to fix or respond to revert those changes. With a financial service, e-commerce, or media firm, how much money are you willing to lose during these downtimes? This kind of problem may happen occasionally, but it’s a risk you won’t want to take on a daily basis.
By choosing the nearshore model, you can partner with a skilled DevOps team and work with their agile customer-value-driven approach. While enjoying the benefits of optimizing costs and increasing productivity through outsourcing to a nearby country.
Some people ask what’s the difference between the concepts of “Outsourcing DevOps” and “Nearshore DevOps.” The truth is that there is no point in comparing them since they are complementary concepts.
Outsourcing DevOps is the primary term and is segmented into three categories or ways to outsource your workloads.
They are onshore, offshore, and nearshore. You can compare them to see what fits the best for your organization’s needs. In my experience, if you are looking to outsource your IT services (Outsourcing DevOps), I would advise you to think of the Nearshore model as your first option.
We can assume that adopting outsourcing DevOps with a Nearshore model can have more benefits than typical Outsourcing (Off-shore). Since you are not extending your team to another continent (as you have to do in offshore models), which can produce what I call a “Jet Lag” in your team collaboration.
DevOps culture is a relatively new practice in enterprises and digital startups. Building a new Nearshore DevOps team is taking a step towards IT modernization and Digital Transformation.
That’s why engaging a nearshore model with ClickIT enables companies to improve development productivity and product deliverables by attending urgent tasks on the same day, having daily scrum meetings with the whole team, and quickly resolving back-and-forth tasks due to online collaboration on most of the business day.
Now you have discovered, as a Product Owner, Startup founder, or Engineer Director, that offshoring is not the only option to save costs. Take into consideration that offshore can have its downsides because of the multiple differences between the teams. After this, you now know how it is to work with a Nearshore DevOps team and how productive your IT partners can be with this type of engagement. Give it a try! It could be one of your best decisions.
ClickIT DevOps and Software Development is a vibrant digital company that loves to innovate and build native cloud applications. We’re passionate to collaborate with customers following our company culture and values.
A DevOps Team is a multidisciplinary team of specialists working all together on iterations to provide instantaneous feedback and avoid delays and extra costs on the infrastructure and development. DevOps are the gurus of cloud services and Linux; with their expertise, they can help you improve and grow your business.
Outsourcing is the process of engaging a non-affiliated third party to execute certain IT activities for a firm. Outsourcing IT employs an outside organization’s established personnel to accomplish activities and an external organization’s resources for services and producing products.
Nearshore, offshore, and onshore are the top outsourcing models.
– Onshore: Outsourcing services with a team located in the same country whose headquarters or business operations are usually in a different city.
– Nearshore: Outsourcing services to a company in a different country but sharing similar time zones and cultural affinity. A more cost-effective solution than other types of outsourcing, and it ensures the same level of expertise as in-house teams.
– Offshore: When a company outsources projects to a company in a different country, with an opposite time zone.
The Nearshore Outsourcing model gives you access to a wide talent pool and reduced costs, just as all three outsourcing models do. But with nearshore, you have extra benefits, like cultural affinity, similar time zones, and an excellent communication strategy with no delays.
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