Successful helping customers in their strategy to engage external application development expertise and competence, using the right-best approach and service engagement models, and in a scalable, sustainable, performance-driven, flexible and cost-efficient way!
DSRC has vast experience delivering custom application development and application modernization projects helping customers achieve overall operational efficiency and cost effectiveness.
DSRC has full-service capabilities to support customers through all the phases of the SDLC covering requirements gathering, architecture analysis & design, coding, testing, bug-fixing, deployment, and support. Our global application delivery teams have strong business acumen and technology prowess and vast industry experience to delivery projects on time and within agreed budgets.
At DSRC, we have standardised on very successful service delivery options to Customers wishing to engage DSRC’s application services.
Dedicated Team Model
Ideal Scenario
This model is ideally suitable for customers looking to cost efficiently expand their product/software application development and support teams engaging DSRC’s services to mobilize a well-rounded, team of full-time staff with excellent skill-fit, expertise and experience. aimed at complementing customer’s in-house software development capabilities.
Assigned resources will work under the direct control of customer’s Product Manager/Project Development Manager.
This model is advantageous for complex, long-term projects requiring scalability and flexibility, and with evolving requirements. DSRC can mobilize a team mapping required skillsets, expertise and experience levels required for the engagement.
Key Features
- Cooperative & collaborative development with seamless and effective communication channel. Offshore Team acts as a seamless extension to your onsite teams.
- Full-service, front-end, back-end and full-stack technology expertise and capability. This model does not just offer a low-cost staffing alternative, but aims to help customers with an external competence that is sustainable, scalable and cost efficient.
- Extended teams can be formed with a complete mix to support full project life cycle; or just developers or testers, test automation or product/application support specialists, based on a well-defined resource plan.
- Efficient knowledge and talent management; proven capability in getting teams up-to-speed on customer domain, process, and codebase rapidly and cost efficiently.
- Scalable offering planned, faster ramp-up of team size and flexibility to ramp-down teams based on the ebb and flow of the project.
- Monthly pricing assigned for resources to work as an FTE; pricing includes cost of resources + offshore seat + office facility + infrastructure and connectivity.
- Effective use of modern project management and reporting tools like Jira, Trello, Azure DevOps, Slack, etc. to enhance team collaboration and ensure transparency of the status of the work assigned.
- The teams will work from DSRC’s software development centers in Chennai, India, and will securely connect to the customer’s development and testing environments. They will adjust their work timings to ensure 2-6 hours of workday overlap with the customer’s location.
- Services using this model are offered based on a monthly pricing model for the teams assigned to the customer.
- Resource availability, shorter feedback loops, complete transparency, and customer participation at every stage!
Managed Services Model
Ideal Scenario
This is an engagement model much preferred and suitable for customers who require a fully managed capability aimed to offer end-to-end and holistic service delivery and support. The client assigns full responsibility to DSRC to manage all tasks and activities covering application design, development and unit testing, database management, DevOps, software quality and deployment.
This model is best suited for businesses that must focus on their core business, rather than investing in areas where they aren’t experienced. The customer can outsource the entire work of software development, maintenance, or quality assurance, and DSRC assumes full end-to-end management responsibility.
Key Features
Key features of this engagement model include:
- DSRC takes full responsibility to defines the skillset and talent required to manage task, activity, or service.
- Use required technology, project management and development, tools and infrastructure
- Manage requirements elicitation with the client’s subject-matter-expert or product manager capturing the requirements, visualising requirements using wireframing and prototyping tools, detailing the specifications and manage the delivery employing agile development methodologies take full management of the new features and enhancements (product roadmap), application maintenance and support covering various levels of application and technical support.
- Ensuring that deliverables are deployed in a timely manner.
- Implement required processes and best practices as suited to the project
- Manage documentation and knowledge of the project system and artefacts using online knowledge management tools.
- Help clients with detailed management reports of task and activities provided, presenting deep insights on the overall success and productivity of the engagement with DSRC
The Fixed-Price Model
Ideal Scenario
This option involves fixed price approach to custom software development based on detailed specifications and would be suitable for situations where you want to assign a complete project/product development for a fixed price. Any development work which is not very complex, project with fixed scope of work and requirements well-defined, would be ideally suitable for fixed price engagements.
Development projects are broken down into logical deliverables based on time-box or functionality or based on specific go-to-market strategies and milestones.
This engagement model is ideally suitable for projects where requirements and deliverables are clearly defined. If detailed specification is not available, we can assist with performing a detailed requirement gathering and analysis effort and develop a detailed technical specification (read BRD-to-Spec).
The project would be managed by an experienced Project Manager who would be responsible for the end-to-end management of the project covering, requirements management, design, development, testing and deployment.
Key Features
- End-to-end Project Management for customers requiring to assign turnkey responsibility of custom application development, application modernization and test automation requirements.
- Turnkey development assuming complete responsibility covering:
- System Study, Requirement Gathering & Analysis (RA effort)
- R & D, Requirements Visualization & Prototyping
- Application Design & Architecture
- Development & Unit testing
- Deployment
- DevOps/SysOps
- Support & Maintenance
Time & Material Model (T&M)
We offer the T&M engagement model for short-term engagements spanning across a few days, where it is not possible to ascertain the actual effort and timeframe. Examples of such activities include requirement gathering and analysis effort, system study, application/DB performance management, troubleshooting system/infrastructure issues.
How to choose the right engagement model?
Choosing the right engagement model can be vital to ensure your project and business, and we have been extensively endorsed by our customers whom we have helped engage our services successfully, sustainably and in scalable and performance-driven way.
We have put together some questions below that would help you choose the right engagement model for your business.
If you just have a high-level business requirements document, then you engage us initially on a T&M model to complete the RA effort, and then switch to a turnkey fixed price model to build the initial product (can be a MVP/MSP) and then retain an ongoing team to provide support and maintenance using the Agile Dev Team/Managed Services model.
It is then prudent to engage a partner like us to invest in the talent and we have extensively invested in client specific thrust areas. We will retain the talent and team as long as you need and provide absolute scalability and flexibility which is not usually available if you want to recruit them locally on your own.
When you have need to commence development and take the product to market rapidly, we have excellent in success in helping customers mobilize a team in 2 – 4 weeks timeframe and then ramp-up based on need and demand.
The best bet to start with the small core team covering talent requirement where there is a skill shortage and then get us to support all your resource demand for expansion and growth.
You can count on a proven capability like DSRC to build systems with in defined timeframes and budget; our experience spanning five-decades and the expertise we have acquired delivery some of the large and complex systems, puts us in the best place you can seek support if you are looking to significantly improve ROI margins from this project.
With the requirement clearly defined that you need a stop gap support from us, we can assign resources for short-term engagements using the T&M model.
You are a business having strong in-house project management and software delivery expertise, but need a development team to be managed a trustworthy business like DSRC.
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