Services & Engagement Models

Resource Augmentation

There are many more reasons to augment engineering resources than simply to save money. Some of the reasons American companies turn to Neova include:

Companies in Rapid Growth Stay Focused on Core Business

Companies experiencing a growth surge, be it due to market acceptance, increased traction, or even playing catch-up with the competition, often discover it's too hard to hire talented engineers fast. Neova has resources at the ready for our clients who are growing fast.

An unfortunately common scenario is for a company that did not build its product for scalability, or did not adequately test its product in advance, to discover that the flip side of rapid growth is thousands of users reporting errors, getting frustrated, and abandoning ship. This totally bogs down the engineering team on fire-drills, while core development goes adrift. Neova is prepared to manage and solve all those emergencies, while you focus on your core business.

Engineers Maintain Focus; Professional Services Department Stays Happy

Even when a product requires a large, professional services department, it's common that that department lacks its own engineering team. This has never stopped the professional services folks from "hounding" the core engineering team for custom development work for their clients, in the form of demos, actual development, etc. This divided responsibility detracts from the engineering team's ability to focus on the core product. Outsourcing the professional services development work takes the burden off the in-house engineering team, and makes the professional services team very happy.

Transient Engineering Needs Met Without Headaches

When a company has occasional development needs in one or more technologies outside the scope of its own engineering team's expertise, outsourcing this work to Neova provides a solution that is not only more economical, but is also more stable than having to bring in expensive consultants each time the engineering need arises.

And When the Bottom Line Is the Bottom Line

In a downturn, CTOs are often expected to maintain their team's pace of development, but simultaneously reduce their costs without sacrificing the product or the engineering. This is a typical paradox. What to do? Two cost-saving solutions are to reduce the fall-out of lay-offs by moving non-critical aspects of development offshore--leaving business-critical engineering in-house, and to mitigate the pain of a hiring slow-down by using more economical, outsourced teams.

Sometimes it's not the health of the company, but simply its youth, that creates a similar pressure. A young company may frequently need to hire significantly more resources than it has budget for. Say they need 3 to 5 engineers to get the job done well. Perhaps they have a first round of funding that will cover the costs of one or two engineers. Sooner or later, they're likely to discover that trying to build a high-quality product with a compensation package of low US salary plus equity, or a staff of very inexperienced developers, is neither efficient, nor likely to lead to a well-built product. It may be much more efficient, yet no more expensive, to hire one senior engineer and a product management consultant locally, and then fill out the engineering team with several qualified, offshore engineers.

Getting the Most out of a Product through Testing and Quality Assurance

Everybody does some kind of testing, but most engineering teams don't do comprehensive or automated testing, despite the cost-savings and product improvements they provide. Some of the highest quality testing provides the greatest long-term cost savings, but because its initial cost of implementation is higher than some other kinds of tests, it is neglected. Companies that outsource testing to Neova enjoy not only financial savings, but also tangible improvements to product quality that would not be possible without high-end testing. Read more about QA and Testing.

When Time Difference Equals Speed

No, there are no elves involved, but clients for whom we do off-cycle testing sure like coming to work in the morning to find that the code they wrote the previous day has already been QA'd and tested. The increase in efficiency is obvious, and moving the core engineering team off these tasks saves money, as well.