Top reasons why clients choose Mindfire Solutions!

Mostly people look for numerous options before considering outsourcing to a particular software vendor. But, before finalizing do consider these simple points to choose your right development partner.

Mindfire Solutions is one such software development company in India, which deals with outsourced projects catering to SMB’s. The company has immense potential and works on a variety of technologies. Be it web, mobile, database, testing or any other area of development Mindfire, has the ability to deliver robust and quality solutions. It has highly skilled software experts those who are certified and trained to take up any level of projects. But, I believe this might not be enough for a decision maker to finalize a partner. So, let’s check out why to outsource to Mindfire Solutions?

Mindfire Solutions is a software organization in India which believes in providing off-shore small-team software development service and follows Agile methods in work. So let’s check out what Mindfire as a software company has to offer to its prospective customers.

Top reasons to choose Mindfire Solutions as your offshore development partner!

Daily Updates – At Mindfire, every employee has a sense of responsibility towards their project. Communication methods includes e-mails briefing clients on the job done, tasks pending & other issues and daily Skype calls to clients to update them about the progress of the project. Also clients can call them on direct numbers if required.

Visual Demonstration – A concept known as “2 Minute Video or 2MV” has been internally started at Mindfire that focuses on preparing a short video of 2 minutes for clients, briefing them about the daily tasks done. This video elaborates clients about the progress of a project. By doing this there is no need to communicate via e-mails for updates. Any issues encountered can be discussed either over Skype or e-mails then.

Exclusive Offshore Model – Mindfire as a company focuses exclusively on the offshore model concept. It does not believe in body shopping/on-site consulting concept. Still teams are allowed to travel on-site as and when required. Mindfire believes that clients can benefit from their collaborative or organizational strength by working at their premises.

Small Teams split up – Mindfire again believes that running large team of hundreds of people in an organization is counter-productive. Hence, they run teams of a maximum of 25 developers. This is done to have direct leadership interaction and avoid inefficiency. So, if there is a requirement of 100 people for a project, Mindfire would rather divide it into 4-5 groups of developers to retain small team concept with higher efficiency, able leadership and deliver scale.

Service and only Service – Mindfire is committed to provide only software development service to its clients. Unlike other offshore vendors, Mindfire do not indulge themselves into any kind of product/systems development. The only thing they do is provide dedicated software service to their clients.

Quality Assurance Guaranteed – Every project at Mindfire, passes a QA test before being delivered to its client. Each project that comes in is allotted an independent QA tester from the very beginning till end. He is responsible to figure out development issues and report to the team so that clients receive a stable and robust build every time. Mindfire also provides maintenance and support to clients after the delivery of the project.

Free Trial Period & Easy Payment Options – Mindfire offers its prospective customers a Free Trial Period scheme wherein they are offered a time period to test out Mindfire’s capability in software development. If the prospective customer is happy with the coding standards at Mindfire, then he needs to pay for the work or leave without paying. Even Mindfire has a very flexible payment options. Customers can ask for hourly, monthly or fixed budget for their development projects depending on their capability.

So many lucrative offers would definitely be enough for a prospective customer looking out for offshore software development to get started with Mindfire Solutions as their partner. If, I would have been you I would definitely give it a shot. There is nothing to lose. You can visit @ http://www.mindfiresolutions.com

Working with offshore software Development teams

In my last post, I had mentioned few factors that would help anybody decide upon the right software development partner for their requirements. What next? Once finalized with your offshore software development partner, how would you go ahead and manage the progress of your project as you would be handling teams across different time zones, different cultures, and language and also without face to face interaction?

Small businesses do a lot of work virtually as internet has removed geographical barriers. Things get done easily in this boundless world. Hence, it is essential to take advantage of technology and monitor the work done without being physically present.

Many projects fail due to the lack of communication between the company and the vendor. Hence, these loopholes should be avoided in order to efficiently and successfully deliver a project. Does working with your offshore development partner give you a lot of trouble? The below listed points might be of great help if you are a project manager dealing with offshore software vendors.

Managing Offshore teams has always been a concern!

Stay in Touch – Today’s delivery model (onsite-offshore) allows 24-hour work routine which moves the project rapidly. This is a situation where the offshore team is working when the project manager is asleep. So, make sure that there is time overlap where both parties would be alert to email/IM. The best thing to do is have a detailed discussion about the project over Skype every day. But, make a habit of staying in touch with the team.

Daily Updates – Ask your offshore team to send you daily updates on the progress of the project. Does not matter if it is a very small task done but be updated with the daily work done. If not via e-mail, then via a short video explaining the tasks done. But make sure they send you the progress of the project on a daily basis.

Visual demonstration – Prepare a small visual demonstration of what you are trying to explain. Be it a diagram or a process, it is always better to have a visual demonstration rather than both parties exchanging e-mails. This would provide greater clarity than other means.

Strict Deadlines – Make sure that you set strict deadlines for the progress of your project or else you might end up in trouble. Also be available to answer queries that come up from the offshore team.

Timely feedback – Feedback is most important. Providing proper feedback on the progress of the project would lead to successful delivery.

Communication – Communication plays an important part while working within offshore models. Make sure that the teams your work with are fluent in English. At least they have a good grasp of the language and understand each and every bit of your requirement.

Follow these above mentioned points and you will efficiently manage projects with your offshore teams. Avoiding these important points will lead you to frustration and sometimes failure. Keep Reading!

Cheers

Surya