5 Reasons Why to Outsource Software Development

When digging in for any information about software development outsourcing, you can find plenty of articles about the most common reasons why to outsource software development. On the other hand, you can find loads of texts about potential risks and threats coming along outsourcing. This topic, however, is worth a deeper analysis. Namely - why, from a practical point of view, a CTO may be interested in software development outsourcing?

Introduction

As mentioned above, the Internet is full of different texts about reasons for software development outsourcing. The most popular ones are the possibility of time/cost savings, lack of internal experience or access to a huge talent pool provided by an external vendor, such as The Software House. Obviously, these reasons are completely relevant but let's take a look from a different perspective by analysing five short stories. 

Story #1: You already achieved success and agreed a new deal

Once you achieved great success and found your product-market fit - you went one step further and finalised another huge deal. Now, you need to deliver top-quality product within the tight deadline but you lack internal resources to do so. 

You know that meeting deadline is absolutely crucial, so you can't recruit any new developers permanently. It would take too much time you don't have. That's why considering outsourcing is probably the best solution. 

You can select the vendor you find the most suitable, shape the team as per your needs and after they deliver a final product - you can decide whether you still need to work with them or you finish the partnership. 

Story #2: Further development of an existing software

If you already...