In today's fast-paced, competitive environment, releasing quality assured solutions/applications before your competitors do can be an underestimated nightmare.
With constantly evolving technology and the pressure to constantly innovate, businesses are left questioning whether or not outsourcing of their technology is the solution. There are many elements to consider when contemplating whether technology outsourcing is the solution for your business.
First, you need to thoroughly understand the pitfalls of outsourcing so all risks are mitigated prior to you embarking on what could turn out to be a disastrous decision for your organisation.
Some of the most vital yet often overlooked pitfalls include: Selecting a vendor without ensuring intellectual property rights and other legal aspects are thoroughly covered, prior to engagement. You most certainly do not want to end up with a vendor holding you ransom to developing your own application as the intellectual property rights of the application belong to the vendor.
Another very common pitfall, which puts many organisations at risk, is the outsourcing of software development and software quality assurance to the same vendor. Software quality assurance is a specialist discipline, which should either be kept in-house, on condition that you have a qualified team with appropriate tools and methodologies, or alternatively outsourced to expert testing professionals.
Software Quality Assurance (SQA) is fast becoming a sought-after and specialist skill that organisations can no longer afford to ignore. As applications increase in size, complexity and utilisation, the lack of quality assurance impacts businesses negatively, sometimes to the extent that the reputational damage and financial loss cannot be reversed. The ultimate result being an innovative solution of poor quality - the benefits of being the first in your industry to enter the market is totally lost by clients losing confidence in your product.
So, does this mean that in order to enter the market with a quality assured product you would have to sacrifice innovation and quick delivery? The simple answer is no. The solution to this dilemma is the SQA Maturity Model. The Software Quality Assurance Maturity Model ensures your software is released quickly and with zero high severity defects, and is customised to your existing SDLC. Sound too good to be true? This innovative and practical solution has already been snatched up by some of the top 100 companies in South Africa. The model has three pillars, People, Process and Technology. It allows companies to maximise their return on investment in IT by maximising efficiencies and reducing the costs of defects. Simply put, as long as vital components such as the legal elements and the quality assurance is taken care of, you can concentrate on your core business and make outsourcing of technology work for you.
For a complementary demo of the SQA Maturity Model, send an e-mail to info@testingsolutions.co.za.
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