Offshore Dedicated Teams

Offshore Dedicated Team is the solution for companies who need to extend their in-house software development capacity without the overheads of additional direct manpower and infrastructure resources. It is also a good option for new start up companies seeking lower cost with qualified engineers and guaranteed results.

We provide professional staff with required skills and experience working in dedicated office space, including hardware, software, communication infrastructure. We establish Offshore Dedicated teams with professional methodology and management in mind. We support our clients in working with the engineers to reach a high level of productivity.

With Offshore Dedicated Teams service FutureVision provides:

Offshore Dedicated Team Organization Chart
Typical Offshore Dedicated Team is organized as follows:

Employee Levels and Costs
We classify the employees into 3 levels, according to work experience, technologies and tools possession

1. Junior Engineer (up to 3 years experience)
2. Mid-level Engineer (starting from 3 years experience)
3. Senior Engineer (starting from 5 years experience, with advanced knowledge or specialized technologies)

For our clients ease, we have created a competitive and simple pricing model called Fixed monthly Employee cost.

The fixed monthly cost is defined per employee for a fixed period of time (6 months or more). The pricing model relies on FutureVisions support for employee motivation, retention and possible replacement.

Please find below the experience/ cost guideline chart for various technologies:

Upon request we also provide free guidelines and consultancy to our clients on employee salaries, material motivation, and other possible options of increasing the team productivity.

With this pricing model, FutureVision provides discounts depending on team size:

• For teams from 2 up to 5 engineers -5%
• From 6 up to 10 engineers -10%
• From 11 engineers -15%

This pricing model is especially good to those clients who want to start offshore dedicated team while keeping monetary risks manageable.

Note: A standard working month includes 140 working hours for clients projects and other activities. The time above 140 hours per month is reserved for employee education, corporate events and other incentives.

Roles and Responsibilities

The table below illustrates typical responsibility distribution in setup and running Offshore Dedicated Team

Client Parties and Activities

• Project Manager: a manager who responsible for organization of the development of projects within the ODT.
• General Manager /Operation Manager: authorized person responsible for cooperation with FutureVision regarding all ODT-related issues.

FutureVision Parties and Activities

• Administrative Manager: Team organization, professional consulting regarding development process, conceptual suggestions, smooth extension and effective operation; Finance Management: financial planning, invoicing, managing payments, new employee legalization, accounting, tax, legal issues, network and telecommunication infrastructure organization and maintenance, new hardware purchasing and install, users support, office management, communications with suppliers, visitors and guests accommodations etc.
• HR: new candidates searching in response to Clients job description, pre-selection interviewing and further interviews, maintaining CV database, etc;

Administrative Management
FutureVisions goal is to guide the Client through all the stages of running Offshore Dedicated team, including requirements analysis, negotiations and setup, methodology and operations elaboration, ensuring effective communication, trouble-free processes and on-time delivery. The day-to-day activities related to management and support for Offshore Dedicated team are called Administrative Management. Such activities include communication, system administration, office management, financial management, legal support and methodology advices to clients and to the team.

HR: Recruitment, Retention, Training

The recruitment is probably one of the most important processes in the establishment of a dedicated team. Given the expansion of the Ukrainian IT industry, even though there is a large pool of skilled personnel, they are increasingly difficult to find, attract and retain. We use a variety of methods to find potential employees, and attract them by offering challenging work, good working environment, and career prospects. We have been successful in recruiting the right personnel and have grown our workforce each year since we were established in 2000.

Our policy is to recruit talented people, challenge them with interesting work and introduce them to experienced team and develop them through their careers with the company.

To address the medium and longer term needs for skilled personnel our company maintains relations with leading Universities.

How to start

During pre-sales stages, FutureVision performs requirements analysis for Clients outsourcing needs. To ensure proper communication and project transition to the offshore dedicated team, we have elaborated many procedures, guidelines and checklists. We usually begin with the following key activities:

• Defining the project and/or activity the Client is considering having within Offshore Dedicated Team
• Defining the staff and infrastructure requirements

After having this information and synchronizing our visions, FutureVision prepares a Proposal and Contract for Offshore Development Services.

The Contract contains all terms and conditions, service levels, rates and agreements achieved, including the following articles:

• Services description to be provided
• Responsibilities
• Adequate Human Resources
• Productivity measurement and working time tracking
• Knowledge Sharing and Training
• Vacations, sick leaves and Holidays
• Hardware and software requirements
• Licensing requirements and conditions
• Intellectual Property Ownership and Confidentiality
• Protection of employees

Upon proposal acceptance and contract signing, FutureVision begins the dedicated team establishment, including hiring engineers, allocating the infrastructure, office space, workstations, internet connection, solves legal issues and proceeds to operations.

Your Offshore Dedicated Team is started at this point.

Our aim is to be a strong long-term partner and to provide technical support and services for our clients in software products and services development.