Management of IT company

By | April 26, 2010

Management of IT company short version:

Theme 1: While Ukraine has many small teams working with various customers – their cooperation in single administrative infrastructure would give additional benefits to all participants.

Theme 2: DevelopEx provides administrative services for existing development teams in Ukraine.

Theme 3: DevelopEx can setup a development team and do all necessary registration paperwork for your company from scratch.

Management of IT company long version:

Ukraine, as one of the outsourcing centres in Eastern Europe, has hundreds of small developers groups who are working as a remote development team or office, each for his single abroad customer. And often such small groups have problems with administrative management like office management, accounting, financial reporting, recruitment, hardware purchases and other administrative tasks. And with all those tasks great technical minds work inefficiently and can feel frustrated. As the solution to that can be hiring a “Director” who will be responsible for all operations. Another alternative is to hire a management company who will do all duties of Director, office manager, accountant, network administrator, etc., when needed. And what is most important in case of problems act a crisis manager to solve complex situations.

  1. Centralized accounting and paperwork, company registration, centralized office management, centralized recruitment. This allows us to be cheaper then usual full-time director + office manager. (plus human resource manager, plus network administrator, plus cleaner, plus cook, etc)
  2. Possibility to cooperate with other teams in our infrastructure in various areas: by exchanging people knowledge when situation allows.(like if team A doesn’t have Flex developer, team B could have).
  3. possibility to minimize risks of loosing time/money when there is no task for specific people (between projects or when project is over), by notifying other teams that there is availability and other teams can “buy” time of available person.
  4. compare development productivity with people in multiple teams, and raise good people in time, minimizing risk of loosing them. as well as to not overpay people who have less productivity then average in other teams.
  5. additional level of risks and issues handling in case of complex situations.

And those points can be very important in building great teams and successful business.

That gets us to the point – DevelopEx provides a service of administrative management for your team. We have experience in this area and do administrative management now for several 3rd party Ukrainian teams. Thus we can definitely state what are the advantages in having us onboard:

  1. Confidence in us. We are working 10+ years on the market and having only positive feedback from our partners. You will be able to verify all our clients and references personally.
  2. As a difference to most outsourcing companies, when required, we can register new company where you will be owner and all people will be legally employed/contracted by your company.

Of course, all of the above is true when you want to build an outsourcing development team from scratch ,as well as take exiting team to our group. We already have presence in  Kiev, Dnepropetrovsk, Donetsk, Chernigov, Poltava but not limited by those cities.

All listed advantages are taken from our real life experience and we believe that our services can be useful for you either you are going to start a new development office, or want your existing development office to be free from administrative hassle, or you are a team leader of Ukrainian outsourcing group and would like to get help in non-technical areas of business management. If you think our services might be useful for you – please contact us a for a meeting and discussion of our possible cooperation.

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