Augmenting our client’s existing in-house resources with a team extension of nearshored software developers to ensure a stable workforce can be a challenge. How to hold ingrained procedures like stand-up meetings when one developer is 1000km away? How to ensure that he understands the wishes and needs of the business owners when it is not possible to talk face to face ?
As the lack of experienced resources became a constraint for business it is important for more and more companies to understand how to set up global teams efficiently. With 20 years of IT outsourcing experiences K&C learned many pitfalls and how to overcome them. We have implemented German management standards and Agile processes across all K&C branches. And we make sure that every project starts with a well-planned and intensive onboarding. As a result, the integration of K&C developers into in-house teams works seamlessly.
Our client is Valiton – a German IT service provider of a large media holding based in Offenburg and Munich. The developers of K&C have worked on the single sign on solution of our partner which is called harbourmaster. The goal of the project is to analyze user behaviour in media portals and thus the solution enables Harbourmaster tenants to approach their clients with relevant and specific offers.
Team size: 2 Business Owners, 8 engineers.
Project duration: Ongoing project for the last 1.5 years
We were tasked to build a stable in-house team and integrate it into the client’s existing team. For the project at hand, a particular challenge was to find highly flexible engineers who can work on both backend and frontend and have the capability to adapt to changing environments quickly.
The client’s In-house staff was tied up in long-term projects, whereas the management needed to focus on new projects.
Extensive experience in the IT industry for 20 years.
Significant enterprise-level background and references.
Large team of top-level specialists that could be drafted in and out according to the project cycle’s needs
Skilled developers capable of solving complex issues with minimal supervision
Ability to provide a full-stack developer, who can shift between programming languages and FE/BE quickly
Skills and experience with both legacy systems as well as with cloud (AWS)
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We ensured a high degree of intellectual flexibility in our specialists as they needed to adjust to rapidly changing environments quickly.
Due to the complexity and interdependency of the legacy systems, it takes time to understand the particularities of the projects fully. We solved the challenge by providing the right people with comprehensive knowledge about the legacy systems at hand, as well as about cloud technology.
Additionally, we established an intensive onboarding while providing ongoing training for the AWS services used. It allowed specialists to stay up-to-date with the latest services and technologies (especially AWS).
After Integrating developers into the existing client’s team seamlessly using intensive onboarding about the sophisticated technologies and choice of architecture, Valiton has a stable workforce and does not need to shift in-house devs between projects. As in many of our projects, the lines between external and in-house staff become blurred, so K&C and Valiton Engineers cooperate on an equal footing.
No suboptimal reallocation of in-house resources was necessary anymore and the client’s senior staff could focus on newly acquired projects
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