How to Choose A Software Development Company

Choosing the right Web Development AgencyDubai UAE for your product is like hiring a team to build your new home. Triple check the contractor you're going to work with over the next few months, or sometimes even years, and most importantly, you can decide on your success or failure.

Below you will find a pattern and a set of questions that we use to find a software development company for our companies beforehand.

Quotes - Reject The Cheapest

It's like buying products on eBay or Amazon– every time you buy the cheapest iPhone cable, it breaks after a week or two.

The same with the purchase of services.

If you choose the cheapest offer, you will ultimately pay more at the end of the project.

Why?

There are a Few Reasons:

Technological Debt– Poorly written code, lack of evidence, difficult to work or maintain, lack of documentation.

Property of Source Code: 

Does not own the source code; you will get only one code included or the company will offer to license the product, even though you pay for the development.

Poor Communication:

 Lack of experience of the offshoring team/near the street, low level of English, lack of transparency in the development process.

You do not want to buy the cheapest service, but the most profitable. If you focus on spending less money initially, you'll pay 2-3 times more in the future (worst case scenario: rewrite the app from scratch).

See how to choose a software development company to create your product.

Integration and Communication

Find a company that constantly pushes the development process to improve and assess retrospective meetings.

It will be a faster and more cost-effective way to integrate your external development team from day one if they can clearly articulate what they expect from you and what you expect from them.

Based on an Accenture report, communication and quality of service are more important than price for today's customers.

Based on our experience, the most popular areas in IT for similar processes are:

Scrum/Agile Development Process– Today, 80% of IT teams work at SCRUM. Therefore, things like daily standups, sprints, and a similar definition are indeed simply a necessity. Your outsourcing partner should have it.

Tools – No matter what project management tool you use (Asana, Trello, Jira or even Taiga) – help if your partner uses them. More important is to understand that your external equipment should be accessible; you should feel almost like you are working in the same office - communicate with them daily at Slack or Mattermost during normal working hours.

Are Using the Word "No"

Avoid yes-Sayers. You want to have a direct partner who is able to say 'No' if necessary.

For example:

"No, you shouldn't do this feature first, it's a waste of money and your valuable time."
"No, we don't work in RoR or Python or C, we're focused on JavaScript."
"No, you should consider different tools..."

Rule of a Company of Similar Size

Learn this tip from a book "Built to Sell: Creating a Business That Can Thrive Without You" by John Warrillow.

Choosing a company similar to yours has some advantages, the most important of them is – You want to be treated as a VIC (very important customer).

If the company is too big, you may not get enough attention. If they are too small, they may not have enough experience to work on such a scale.

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Partner Chemistry
We firmly believe in the chemistry of relationships.

We work with our partners (yes, partners, not customers) as closely as possible, discussing the form of the product.

Once there is chemistry and we are on the same page by having extensive transparent communication, the pitfalls can be avoided, and we can pursue our partner's commercial success.

Frequent Deployment

The company should be eager to show you its progress as soon as possible. Each sprint must be finished with a product demo.

Accelerate development! Developers are motivated to demonstrate weekly/fortnightly results of their work. They feel the pressure every week. You, as a customer, have the same pressure to deliver information/specification/mockups for the next week's sprint.

Weekly demonstrations are part of the development process and have a huge influence on process quality and speed of development, in our case.

A Partner Who Understands the Business

Over the past 7+ years, we have built and failed with many of our own startups. Two-sided markets, mobile apps, SaaS businesses, e-commerce, B2C/B2B platforms and more.

As serial entrepreneurs, we have learned that it's not all about the code and technology behind your product, but about the business.

Your development partner must understand that and challenge the new features it develops, help you focus on priorities, advise you from a technical perspective, and connect with you as partners in your network.

Do everything you can to make your business successful.

Always say, "Our Client's Success is Our Success". Therefore, we must do everything we can to help your business succeed, not just build the product."

Ask For Recommendations
Ask the company for recommendations; search for reviews over the Internet (e.g. Clutch, Facebook, Google+).

Delve into a local community during Meetups – ask them about their opinions about the company. Watch LinkedIn and which of your contacts have the company's founders on their network – ask them for feedback.

See reviews for a few different points of view.

Geography

You don't want to feel a language barrier – English is a necessity, nowadays. You want to have a software development company like your partner - to advise you, not just to write the code.

Creative problem solvers with great language skills – Those are the kids you're looking for. So think twice before outsourcing your product development to India, the Philippines, or Vietnam.

The great technology is about 30-40% of a company's success. Therefore, find a partner who can advise you, don't just write the code.

Flexibility Vs Inflexibility

If you don't have exact mockups, specifications, user stories, project plan, and a well-documented product with a few years of experience in creating similar products, do not choose the fixed-price model.

It will simply cost you more money than the time- and material-based project.

If you choose a fixed price, most software development companies will add 25% or more to cover the risk of not knowing the exact scope of the project.

Time and material is the price to go with for most projects. Read more about the benefits of time and material, compared to the fixed price and choose the best solution providing company

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