Showing posts with label PHP Web Development Company. Show all posts
Showing posts with label PHP Web Development Company. Show all posts

Monday, 3 April 2017

10 Advantages of Offshoring Software Development That Other Successful Companies Don’t Want You To Know About!

Discover the Secret of Saving Thousands of Dollars Each Month While Increasing Your Web and Mobile App Development Productivity

Here’s the ultimate ‘Offshoring Discovery’:
If you think about it Google hasn’t even reached its twentieth birthday, yet it is one of the fastest growing companies in the world. How is it that some companies seem to have accelerated growth and others have come out of nowhere to become leaders in a really short period of time. How do they do it?

Answer: Leveraging Time and Talent
They are not stuck in the old traditional (comfortable) ways of doing things. In fact some would say they are rule breakers or industry transformers. But, the one thing they all have in common is a Global workforce. They have figured out how to leverage highly skilled and talented people from around the world.

They take advantage of the world economy and provide great jobs in countries where the cost of doing business is much lower. They have figured out how to leverage the time zone differences to extend their days and get things done faster.
You can do the same for your department and your company. All you need to do is leverage the advantages of offshoring.

Top Ten Offshoring Advantages And How To Make The Most Of Them

Advantage #1 – No Real Estate

Where is the person going to sit? The cost associated with that desk space is a big consideration in the leading corporate cities around the world. The price per square foot in any major city in the world is a big factor in the overall cost of providing for an onshore employee –desk, chair, computer, etc. On top of that there is the time needed to find the space, negotiate the lease, and build out the space. Plus you need to be comfortable taking on the long term commitment. All are things that can slow you down.

When you setup an offshore development office you are not paying the high rents associated with onshore offices.  Nor are you taking on a multi-year commitment.

Advantage #2 – Highly Talented People

For many companies a limiting factor affecting growth is the ability to find smart, highly skilled employees. There are smart people born everywhere, and many pursue a University Degree in Computer Science or Computer Engineering. The cool thing about computers is the language they understand transcends spoken language. Computer languages have a much smaller lexicon therefore allowing many people to understand and decode what is being done.

Advantage #3 – Different Time Zones

What began as a disadvantage, smart companies like Google have parlayed into a strategic approach that speeds development by creating a 24 hour development cycle.
Having developers work both onshore and offshore allows development to continue when one group finishes their day. Development speeds up as the project is handed off from one team to the next. Some additional management time and co-ordination between teams is required but the result is staggering. What would take 3 days to develop using a resource in a single time zone can now be completed in a day with round the clock development.

Advantage #4 – No HR Headaches

Have you ever wished that you could just have a conversation with someone about the type of people you are looking for, and they immediately got it. They then went off and wrote the job posting, prescreened all the candidates for you and then just brought you the list of candidates for you to choose from. That’s what happens when you work with an organization that manages the all of these details for you. An additional bonus is that you don’t need to get approvals for various job sites, salary levels, etc.

You establish your budget for your offshore team and then you’ll get just one invoice, which is a pure expense to the business. No need to manage payroll, or benefits.
If someone doesn’t work out it is then easy to release someone from the team with no HR issues.

Advantage #5 – Easy to Manage

Everyone wonders about managing people half way around the world, the key is to have your overseas staff working for one organization that takes care of all the basics like checking to see if everyone arrived on time and put in their full days work. What you need is while you are sleeping, someone else is watching over the team for you and creating for you the basic reports.

You get to focus on the tasks they are working on, the challenges they need help with you don’t need to deal with the petty little stuff.

Advantage #6 – Responsiveness & Scalability

As your needs change it is easy to change your workforce. When you need more people or you need to shrink your workforce you can just pick up the phone or send an email and say I need more or less. You are not managing space, infrastructure or employee termination processes.

You can also easily swap out someone that is not working out for you because the relationship is with the Offshoring Company you are working with. The relationship they have with you is larger than that one person.

Advantage #7 – Security, Control and Confidential Information

Having security, control and protecting confidential information is easier today. With today’s technology it is easy to setup a VPN or virtual private network access or VDI virtual desktop access to your current infrastructure. This gives you full control over the access to your systems. You can even install monitoring software that lets you check-in on people from time to time and see what they are doing with or without notifying them.

Advantage #8 – No Hidden Costs

When you have a dedicated team of developers offshore that is provided to you through one provider you pay just one price per month: there is no hidden costs.

When you hire for a project, you often run in to additional costs because of natural evolution of change as the code moves through the normal testing and release schedule of alpha, beta, release candidate, live.

This process creates a natural conflict between the offshore development company and yourself due to the management of scope creep. Scope creep is eliminated when you use a software dedicated team.

Advantage #9 – Culture

When you outsource a development team (rather than a project team) you can indoctrinate them in your corporate culture – Wear the logo – etc. They become your employees, they know your standards and understand what it is that you are trying to accomplish. This naturally leads to a better outcome. You know this to be true. Your best developers are the ones that have bought into the company goals and culture. It is no different when you move development offshore.

Advantage #10 – Continuity – Same Resource – No Retraining

When you hire an offshore development team they are your team dedicated to you. As the scope of the project changes it is no different than how you manage your home team. As new projects arrive, you assign them to your team. These are the people you are comfortable with and you have developed trust in.

When you work on a project basis when the project ends the team is disbanded and moved to other projects. You may or may not be able to have the same people.

Take the next step…


Get any and all of your questions answered about offshoring at Stepin Solutions, simply email at hello@stepinsolutions.in to schedule time to get any remaining questions you have about offshoring answered. We have an experienced web and mobile development team. And if you need a dedicated developers we will reach out to you to achieve your dream by providing a full stack development team.


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Many Digital Agencies are winning with Remote Developers. Here are the ways to do it at your own.

If you own or manage a digital agency, you would agree to the point that hiring the appropriate talent is critical to your success. But hiring the most suitable developer isn’t that easy as demand often exceeds the supply of talent in many cities.

Many agencies have started hiring remote developers to overcome the shortage. These agencies are getting ahead of the competition by ensuring they have their required talent to help their clients.

According to current research 20% (or 1 in 5) of agencies are virtual and over 80% of them agreeing that using remote employees improves productivity.  


So should you hire remote Developer /employees for your Digital Agency?

If you are facing a required talent crunch in your market or having a limited budget to spend on or looking to get things done quickly or having more workflow then your current team can accomplish then it may be its time to hire remote developers.

A remote development team is often known as a cheaper solution to hire an in-house team. When taking in account the cost of 1 senior developer in the local market which will be around $350-$400 per day, you might be able to complete your half/quarter work at the same cost, from offshoring.

Still the biggest benefit of the remote developer is not the cost saving, it is the ability to hire the appropriate person for the job. You get the best developer in the world, not the best people according to your geography without having to worry about relocating developer to your place.

But there are other compelling reasons why you may want to hire dedicated developers from offshoring companies. For example, you are serving as web development/design agency and your client come up with mobile app requirement than with their technology support, you can explore those worthy opportunities. With this extended services, your relationship with clients will become stronger.

Another advantage of having a geographically distributed team is the ability to keep the work going across different time zones and provide support for customers who may are not in the same zone as the base office. It helps in maximizing the agency’s ability to ensure that productive work is occurring all hours of the day.

Why should you hire our (Stepin Solutions) services for remote development work?

We have lots of ways to make remote working flexible. Along with the basic hiring models Monthly/Weekly and Hourly, we have On-Demand hiring model which allows you to hire developers when you need them and release them when you are done with your requirement.

We value direct and honest communication with clients and value pragmatic solutions above all else. If there is an issue, we will bring it to your attention rather telling you everything’s going great right up until the moment where it isn’t. You can check our company page and feel the similarity in client-oriented approach.

We know what is essential while working remotely. Our remote developers are some of the most argumentative people in the whole company because we hired them to be that way.  We invite you to interview our developers before deploying to any project.

Also, our developers are available with Skype/Phone/Hangout messenger and project management tool to help you to see the progress with screen sharing, add tickets, keep track of work etc. Along with developer, we will allocate you the project manager to look after your project and provide reports and updates regularly.

If you are still not convinced, here is something with which you will really fall in love. Being transparent we would provide you reports through software which capture screen so that you can get overall details of the working hours, programming, and time took for searching if needed.

We build trust and healthy relationship by signing in legal terms and agreements such as NDA (Non-Disclosure Agreement) and another needful as per the client requirements.

Stepin solutions have been a trustworthy remote development partner for many Digital Agencies and Startups.  We have put in place process and tool to manage the associated challenges in remote working. You can refer our client testimonials that speak of our care and dedication to making your business wealthy.


If you are convincing about our abilities and desires to serve you for your web & mobile development projects we invite you to put one-step forward and place your detailed requirements so we can do needful accordingly for you.

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www.stepin-solutions.com
hello@stepinsolutions.in
+91-79-27774404

We delivers solutions for complex need

 Web Development

Complex project Stepin Solutions delivered in a simple solution – creating powerful custom web development capable of heavy lifting. If you think, your business is unique and your website should be as well. We will work with you to define your unique needs and create a site that accomplishes your objectives. We can help you to build website successful, customized web development /web-enable solutions, for any purpose and with minimum risk, using agile development techniques.
Advantages for Custom Web Development :
  • Structured Framework and Architectural Pattern Development.
  • Multi-browser compatibility.
  • User friendly Interfaces
  • Your business and vision related development
                                                          
Our website development process is tailor to suit your needs, will create a series of mock up to share with our client and revise them as inputs requires. Often times, the demand for custom development is centered in the needs to automate an internal or external process. We develop creative idea to step up and grow up your business successful.

We will also provide you the information you need to make an educated decision about which technology & framework is best for your project needs at the cost you can afford.

You can see the custom web development in our previous work. We built with stunning user interface that have helped our clients manage their business efficiently. We bring the same experience when we work on your project and can promise you that you will be amazed by what you will get for your time & money.

We use our custom PHP MVC framework programming which is design and developed using best programming practices. We already have implemented our MVC framework to large scale projects and it is not well tested. lightweight and scalable framework for any project. We also don’t mind using other framework such as Symfony Development, Zend, Yii, CakePHP or any other one of your choice.


WE OFFER OUR WEB DEVELOPMENT SERVICES


We create with passion & use creativity to persuade

PHP Web Development

We have a professional team of qualified PHP Programmers, who help PHP Application Development Clients across the globe.

Symfony Development

Symfony development is our forte when it comes to developing complicated web applications requiring scalability, extensibility and ease of maintenance.

Enterprise Application

Stepin Solutions development team is familiar with industry practices to ensure that your application is build to the level of scalability that your organisation needs.

Saas Application
We have expertise in SAAS applications. We add SAAS to your enterprise in such a way that it causes fundamental shift in the IT department`s role.

Database Application
We design each data management application for fast, efficient performance in different environments and for specific uses.

iBeacon App Development

We develop smart and beautiful mobile applications compatible with iBeacons technologies, and we deliver Beacon solutions across the globe.

API Development

We build robust websites and applications using owned and third-party APIs.

Sunday, 2 April 2017

Billing Dilemma: What is better for client? Fixed cost or hourly rate?

Many years of my experience in web and mobile development, including complex and often risky quoting processes I was involved in during my career at Stepin Solutions, has left me with the same dilemmas: how to accurately quote web projects? What time buffers should I assume? What risks to consider?
The final quote sent to the client is based on the time estimate and aforementioned factors. I’m sure the same patterns are applied by the most of worldwide web agencies which struggle with clients requesting fixed-bid assignments.

What are the client-side results of fixed-price approach?

Quotes sent in by potential project managers are probably not free of overestimating. Let’s face the truth – in most of the cases it is the project managers who is more aware about the real costs and potential risks of a project.
Of course, years of experience in managing software projects allow to estimate resource needs more accurately, however even with the help of Nostradamus we are not able to predict every possible situation. And I’m positive there are more situations like this than characters in this article! Even solid track-record and extensive experience in custom web application development does not make it much easier to predict problems with various website components or with integrating the software with an external APIs.
Medium- and low-budget developments created with a help of open-source solutions such as Symfony or Drupalor Magento can be delivered within accurately prepared estimates and without major issues. On the other hand, custom development can create complications and getting into more and more specific requirements brings unwanted project growth. And then, we either start to try and force-fit the project in the budget or debate on whether the requirements meet preset project scope or not. Instead of working on the real project development, we waste days or even weeks talking about it, negotiating and clarifying the specification.
What if the projects were charged by only actual time spent by the agency and their developers? What if we could forget the full specification and manage the project on the go? Impossible? Well, there is a way that make it easier – the Agile approach and charging projects by man hour costs.
The software is being developed iteratively (in so called ‘Sprints‘), and the goal of each iteration is the delivery of a product (e.g. a particular, predetermined set of software features). Each sprint is followed by testing and compatibility verified against business requirements. Successively, features or even the whole project can be redone or pivoted.
waterfall-project-management.jpgLet’s try and answer the question: Why hourly rates are a better solution to charge projects than fixed pricing?
  1. Gathering requirements
    Starting a project with creating a full specification means the crucial decisions are being made in the very beginning. Well, the question is whether we know enough about the nature of project at the moment. Changing requirements later can be difficult, not to mention how costly it can get.
    Using Agile, we start working having only the business requirements and key features. The features are being adjusted after their core is created and when we have the essential information. Changes in the project are just a natural part of it in Agile approach.
  2. Financial risk
    I suppose we can all agree that words “precise” and “long-term” assessment stay in opposite. During an estimation process we are forced to introduce project risk factors. Charging hourly rate eliminate potential risks because we cover only the real time spent to achieve particular tasks and goals.
  3. Common priorities
    In fixed-priced projects the priorities of both sides, although common, can lead to a situation where the contractor wants to complete the project as effectively as possible in order to maximize its profit (which is dependent on spent man hours). On the other hand, the client desires a product of the best quality and the time frame is not of his concern, since it doesn’t drive any extra cost. What’s the solution to that? Decide on working with the best contractor and charge the project by the time.
  4. Meeting expectations
    In the waterfall model, acceptances are made by stages, therefore it’s harder to track progress. Any changes made can mean throwing out parts of work already done. In the Agile model you can review the work results more often (sprints usually take weeks, rather than months), so we can track our expectations on the go.
  5. The project can be started earlier
    In Agile approach we don’t focus on creating complex and full specification from the start. There are only particular business requirements and incremental work – from the general key features to the details. Everything is more clear, the documentation is rather simple and comprehensible as it covers only the particular iteration.
  6. Tracking progress and verifying requirements
    In fixed-price approach the project is verified by the client after certain stage is fully complete. In fact, we don’t have a possibility to verify the requirements as they go. In Agile model we track progress constantly, we are well informed and have full transparency in terms of requirements, especially those financial.
  7. Changes in the projectCharging hourly rates allow us to change priorities at all times. Agile gives us full control – we can pause what we do at the time and simply change direction. Constant tracking of the outcome enables us to improve the project on the go – sometimes the best ideas come up in the middle of the work. Agile makes them real without the necessity to renegotiating, meetings, quoting and futile documentation.
  8. In the end, it’s… cheaper
    That’s right! As I mentioned before, when charging fixed rate, the agency must calculate any risks and problems, what can lead to overcharging. Charging hourly rate is actually cost-effective, because the client pays only for the real work done.
  9. The time we don’t track
    Discussion whether a particular piece of the spec means this or that is a waste of time. Have you ever calculate time spent on discussions and negotiating? Not to mention planning every little detail of the project before starting it.
OK – I believe I’ve done my best to convince you to charge projects hourly, using Agile methods. I’m sure that during the next initial negotiations it’s very likely to hear following question:
Agile is great, the sprints are awesome, that’s it – let’s do it! But first I need to hear how much it’s going to cost?”
 There’s no way to charge by fixed price in Agile – it just doesn’t work like that. I’m aware, though, that cost must be somehow estimated, so it’s always helpful to conduct couple of workshops and specify business requirements (having a list of user stories and wireframes help a lot to determine estimates). With a help of workshops and tech-planning and project analysis it allows us to estimate the number of sprints (cycles) required to deliver the outcome by a particular team and pre-calculate the cost. We can also give a range to the client based on how many cycles a project of similar nature normally takes.
Mind that nobody can promise the estimates which match the final budget. There’s no way to predict any modifications or the elements that would need further discussions. Full transparency and control is crucial to approach the project holistically, especially from the financial perspective.
Sound good, doesn’t it? Well, another doubts can arise – what if…
“If I pay for each man hour, how I can be sure that they won’t tweak the hour count?”
A diligent analysis of the potential project manager is crucial. A product of the highest quality that fully meet client’s expectations can only be made by a team we fully trust and the team than can have proven track-record.

What to consider when choosing an agile development agency?

The size and the experience. If the agency runs for years and its portfolio shines with robust projects, delivered for trusted brands and employs top experts of particular competencies, it’s sure a way to go with. It’s always a good idea to reach out and get to know the tools the particular agency uses to track progress.
And if you’re searching for coding and programming partner, Stepin Solutions is the one which can be the best fit for your project.
So, Now what? If you will work with an experienced team like us whom you trust and ycan be a part of our development process, the success is sure. Agile approach following hourly rate is likely to deliver much better outcome than the fixed price projects.

At last we would like to thanks merixstudio for publishing this topic as its very important to clear this dilemma before starting a project and when clients are unaware about the risks involved with fixed costs. As we found merixstudio`s artical very useful for our readers we have published it on our site.

Saturday, 17 December 2016

How to Choose The Best Company for Outsourcing Your PHP Based Projects

PHP web programming is the best option to develop rapid and functional web applications and services. Numerous small and large scale IT companies are offering PHP web development services. There are many qualities that should be present in an ideal PHP development company; however finding out all of them in one company is not an easy job. So let us see some of the qualities that make a company an ideal choice for PHP projects outsourcing.

Portfolio

The portfolio of work of a company shows the way it works. So you must check the portfolio of the companies before choosing one. See the types of projects done by them in the past.
It will show their domain expertise and their abilities. Make sure that they have done projects on the technologies that suit your project requirements. It will be nice if you could find projects similar to your project.

Website

While searching for a company to outsource your PHP based projects, first of all check out the website of the company. Check out the functionality, navigation, graphics, contents and SEO of the site.
If they own a good, professional and unique website of their own, then they could be efficient enough to work for you. If they do not care about their own website, how can they deliver the best services to you?

Development Methodology

Generally all the companies work on a project development cycle for developing websites and applications for their clients. Ask them about different project development methodologies they follow and compare them with the other methodologies popularly followed. The documentation is an unavoidable part of the development cycle so it is very important to know which documents are required and where you can help them.

Get Details About The Company

There are many questions related to your project requirements that you must ask the company. Check out for how long has the company existed, how many members are there in the development team, are they efficient enough to complete your project effectively. Check all their certifications and get reviews about the company from its past clients.

Technical support

Just getting your project completed is not all. What if you face a problem after getting the website or app complete? So make sure you choose a company that offers round the year technical support and maintenance services as well. Hence whenever there is a complex technical issue, quick services will be available with you to restore your website.
Once you are content that the PHP development company is perfect as per all the above parameters, you do not need to go anywhere else. You can outsource all your PHP based projects to it
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