{"id":594,"date":"2019-07-10T08:59:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-10T06:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serengeti.pepwebdigital.hr\/?p=594"},"modified":"2021-01-03T21:37:57","modified_gmt":"2021-01-03T20:37:57","slug":"you-can-not-scale-your-rd-with-copies-of-your-employees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serengetitech.com\/de\/business\/you-can-not-scale-your-rd-with-copies-of-your-employees\/","title":{"rendered":"You can not scale your R&#038;D with copies of your development employees"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"eplus-iAUvfh\">True story: The software product development team is 8 people. The average age in the R&amp;D is 31. All engineers work for the company for at least 3 years. Everybody in the team can jump on various tasks like database, middleware, UI, report generator \u2013 even testing! Team needs to grow for 2 or 3 more engineers. Job ad published on several portals for already 10 months but no candidate matches the desired skill profile.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"eplus-ytmzDP\">Sounds familiar? Here's why...<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"eplus-r0klrl wp-block-heading\">Your expectations on the labor market are not realistic<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"eplus-GyNSLq\">The skill profile you are asking for does not exist outside of your own company. No one except you uses the same combination of technologies. Well, maybe your competitor does...<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"eplus-cT86jO wp-block-heading\">Alternative: Nearshore software development?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"eplus-3JdpXa\">Your thinking: Ok, the Western Europe market lacks about 1 million IT experts. That might be the reason why no candidate with matching skills apply. Let's outsource some work to one of the 5000 custom application development companies in South or East Europe!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"eplus-KINKik\">That must be possible, right? Short: nope!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"eplus-mMfr7z wp-block-heading\">Characteristics of custom application development companies<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"eplus-UyfedP\">A successful nearshore software service provider is highly optimized for 3 things:<\/p>\n\n\n<ul class=\"eplus-Gtx6Rf wp-block-list eplus-styles-uid-50ecb5\"><li>recruiting new talents from a big pool<\/li><li>have experts available for their clients in zero-time<\/li><li>avoid people to sit around a client scales team down<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n<p class=\"eplus-bfYv7J\">As you can imagine \"a good C++ developer with WPF experience and some Oracle PL\/SQL knowledge\" is not something a service company is very eager to offer.<\/p>\n\n\n<ul class=\"eplus-57MK8X wp-block-list eplus-styles-uid-3cddaf\"><li>recruiting such profiles is not a standard process. It's more looking for the needle in the haystack. It takes time, doesn't for the standard recruiting process and is therefore expensive.<\/li><li>since the recruiting process takes long such candidates won't be available to the client in zero-time. Very likely the client moves on before a candidate can be identified.<\/li><li>Due to this very individual skill requirement, there's a very high risk that when the client scales down at some point the candidate has no follow-up project with another client. A lose-lose situation for the service provider and for the engineer.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n<p class=\"eplus-aJdOjg\"><strong>That is the reason why it is very unlikely to find those special skills within software services companies.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"eplus-WzxKDA wp-block-heading\">So, what's left? How to solve this problem?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"eplus-0dXpHD\">There is no short term solution to the problem. The mid term solution is to leave the existing comfort zone and realize as soon as possible that such engineers can't be employed nor subcontracted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"eplus-hCjkqV\">A reorganization in the software development team is needed to be open and ready for scale. Existing team members, even if they are allrounders, have to specialize and build subject matter expertise instead. 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