It’s a myth that working with offshore teams is risky and a bad business decision. In fact, it has the opposite effect as companies can access top tech talent, accelerate product development, and much more cost-effectively. However, like anything in life, it’s not exactly straightforward. You must put in the […]
9 Tips for Building a Close Relationship with Your Offshore Team
In today’s digital economy, growing a business and maintaining a competitive advantage comes down to innovation. Whether it’s a new technology or the disruption of an entire industry, there’s always growing pressure to build something new. The success of these development projects goes beyond the company and has a positive […]
Team scaling is all about bringing new specialists to an existing team in order to increase project capacity. Today, organisations typically have two ways to scale their internal product engineering teams: By hiring new required skills locally, and By extending in-house teams overseas and augmenting them with remote resources. Attracting […]
Our partner company’s software product has just been shortlisted as a finalist for Network Computing Awards 2020 in two categories: The Return on Investment Award and One to Watch Company. We’re happy to have contributed to this success by building and hosting a client-tailored Extended Team in our Ukraine-based R&D […]
It’s no secret that British companies are suffering from a tech talent shortage. According to the Tech Nation Report, as many as one in three London-based startups are plagued by the talent shortage. When the competition for the brightest minds in the business intensifies, salaries skyrocket, and companies have to […]
As we get ready to thrive in the decade of hyper digitisation, many companies are still faced with the daunting task of hiring tech talent. Why is it daunting to hire qualified software developers locally? The answer to that question is (what seems to be) the never-ending tech talent shortage. […]
Have you ever been in what seems like a never-ending process of trying to source highly-skilled developers locally? Or when the deadline is just around the corner, and you have no bandwidth to deliver? If so, you’re not alone. We know because we’ve been in the same position ourselves. And […]
This article looks into challenges UK businesses are facing today as a result of HMRC regulation and IR35 in particular and shows how using Extended Software Teams built offshore or nearshore can be a good response to those challenges. What is IR35? IR35 refers to “the UK’s anti-avoidance tax legislation designed to […]