COMMONS MISTAKES WHILE HIRING DEVELOPERS IN UKRAINE

If you have an innovative product that is new on the market and you delegate the development of its core part to a project outsourcing vendor, you practically extend the tech expertise of the developers that are not part of your team. In this case, the business owner generally doesn't communicate with the programmers that work on the product directly, so it becomes more challenging to ensure their dedication and "one team — one dream" attitude, which may put data confidentiality at risk.

This spooky myth from the 2000s goes even further. Though all IP rights belong to the business owner, it won't hurt remote engineers to practice their skills on your product development and after they make sense of it all, take your business idea and implement it on their own with some minor differences.

SOLUTION: 

To reduce the possible risk of such "leakages," you need to hire it developers from Ukraine via a model that presupposes the full dedication of an offshore team. In cooperation with a tech partner such as ‘Go Interactive’, you'll have the opportunity to manage your team directly, promote your vision, and build trustworthy relationships with your remote developers in Ukraine. In fact, you extend your local team from the US, Canada, and the UK with full-time employees who work remotely at the vendor's location in Ukraine.

No matter local or remote, consistent communication is the basis of successful work relationships. As it has been already mentioned, with project outsourcing, you usually don't collaborate with the developers working on your product directly. Because of it, the business owner never knows whether the developers support company values and views. As a result, you may happen to face misunderstandings with your remote team, which can lead to incorrect implementation of your project.

Even worse when you have doubts about your product vision and change your requirements in the development process. It will not only postpone the project release but also won't come cheap — you may have to pay additional costs for all changes that weren't documented initially.

SOLUTION:

First of all, whatever the pricing model is chosen, you need to determine your company's vision, goals, and values. This will help you build a team of enthusiasts around a common goal — trusted developers in Ukraine don't get hunted by high salaries: they are more prone to choose a company with a big idea behind them than a company that offers luxury perks yet has no conception.

In case your requirements are 100% clear, software development is not at the core of your business, and the project is short-term, project outsourcing will work for you. However, if you expect to implement new ideas throughout the development process, cooperate with the developers in Ukraine directly, and experience full dedication to your product from their side, you need to build your own remote development team as a part of the business.

Often, companies have inflated expectations regarding the timeframes and costs spent on their project. This problem inevitably leads to unsatisfactory results — developers don't meet the specified deadlines and because of the need to make corrections and changes throughout the development process, the client pays additional costs.

SOLUTION:

For better structuring of your expectations, consult with other business executives who have experience in managing a software development team in Ukraine. It's also better to search for tech partners that can offer process and tech consulting like ‘Go Interactive’ — this way you'll be able to structure relevant expectations.

In most cases, software development via a fixed price model in project outsourcing, in the end, doesn't fit into the predicted budget and timeframes. It happens because of the necessity to advance the product in the process of its development. So in case you're looking to improve your product continuously and work out better ways to implement your business ideas, a remote extension of the local team and offshore team of programmers is your choice.