Product Development Services

Every startup that faces the challenges of software development lifecycle can follow one of the three main approaches to product development:

• Hiring the required expertise in-house. Most of the time, the startup owner has some technical background or can partner with a CTO, who possesses one. In addition, using Google App Engine, DigitalOcean or AWS Pipeline can help build a product on your own. However, if your product is a bit more complicated than a one-page eCommerce shop, it might turn out that you need DevOps engineers, QA and testing specialists, database administrators, etc.To hire these talents you’ll need to invest some effort and time in recruitment, either personally, using the in-house recruiter or through a recruitment agency. In any case, this will take some time, and don’t forget that the talents you find and hire can leave at any minute, so while building an in-house team of software engineers is a sound business decision, it still poses lots of risks.
• Hiring the freelancers to do the job. There are multiple job portals and freelancer platforms, where skilled specialists offer their services. Forming a team of freelancers can sound like a good plan, as these talents can be checked by their previous customer reviews and have a rating across the platform, so you can evaluate their hard and soft skills pretty easily and see if they fit your project requirements. In addition, the freelancers can start working on your product at once, while you continue to build the in-house team.However, managing a dispersed team is a very time- and effort-consuming process with lots of uncertainty. Deadlines will shift and the contractors will often find some absolutely irresistible force-majeure reasons for not delivering on time. Thus said, a startup still can get the job done this way, but adding new features to the product would require hiring these specialists again, as they rarely deliver detailed developer documentation, so onboarding new software engineers can be quite a challenge.
• Hiring a dedicated team from a Managed Services Provider like IT Svit. This approach combines the benefits of the two others and lacks their downsides. You gain instant access to a pool of skilled software developers and DevOps engineers, who are able to assist in any stage of the product development lifecycle. We have successfully built several products from scratch and in many cases, we hit the ground running, took the projects over from previous contractors and helped the customers achieve their goals on time.A dedicated team works as a part of your company, integrates into your communication channels and project management system and reports to their PM or to your stakeholders directly. This way you have full control over the product development process and enjoy the visibility of all workflows. MSPs field multiple teams and provide detailed developer documentation, so onboarding new team members will be easy both on your and on their side.In addition, our ample experience with the product design and development workflows ensures IT Svit has polished software development processes and lots of ready solutions for typical challenges, allowing us to reduce time-to-market for your product without any compromise on quality.