FAQ
My business is from a non-IT industry. Can I still use your services?
In fact 78% of our clients are not directly related to the IT industry. We've got clients in financial services, health care, education, travel, energy, manufacturing, retail, telecom, etcetera. The most important question would be if you need ...
Why you should start with a POC?
Hiring a development team (internally and externally as well) involves financial risks and risks business wise. Before you commit to hire a the team for long term, we'd suggest to start with a proof of concept first. Take care the POC gives you a ...
Technical experts you can hire at SHORE team's partners
Our partners offer the whole package or single professionals, if you want to. You can hire product owners, scrum masters, Q&A testers, designers, UX specialists, Ops engineers and ofcourse frontend and backend developers. The composition of your ...
What are the benefits of offshoring?
We consider offshoring as working with an Asian development partner. In this case you can benefit of the lowest rates in the field, a high availability of experts and can work in another time frame as your in house team (so you can maybe even double ...
We are a startup. How would outstaffing work for us?
Outstaffing is a model in which you can easily set up a team and start working with them for the long term (so not specifically project based with an ending character). As you can imagine this will entail significant investments. The most important ...
We are a FinTech business. How can we get as much as possible from outstaffing?
In our opinion it doesn't matter in which branche you're in. In most cases you can: – significantly reduce the time to market – find experts you can't find in your own area – easily scale up and down your team – save 25-75% on your development And ...
Who will be the owner of the code?
There's a significant difference between the outsourcing model, in which the team will work on several projects and work on their own systems and tooling. In that case you should make agreements upon the ownership of code beforehand. In the ...
How much will I save with Outstaffing?
This will be dependant on your current situation and the outstaffing solution you'll finally choose. Going to India will probably save you more than a solution in Central and Eastern Europe. However, all solutions have their pros and cons, for sure. ...
Myths about Outstaffing
Myth 1 - Outstaffing limits the ownership of the code. As opposed to outsourcing, where the code is most often owned by the company who is producing it, when using outstaffing you're in control and have direct ownership of the code. This comes in ...
Can I share my company's culture with the outstaffed developers?
Absolutely. And you should in our opinion. We consider your outstaffed developers to be part of your company. With only two minor differences. They are not on your payroll (but that's only a legal aspect) and they don't work at your office, but ...
How can I take advantage of hybrid teams?
When you already have an in house team and would like to expand the team externally, you'll create in fact a hybrid team. At least when you let them collaborate and don't see them as entire seperate teams. In that case you can use a senior within ...
I'm from the U.S. Can IT outstaffing help me?
A question we got recently: I'm from the US. Can you help me? The answer is: absolutely! Most of our development partners are located in Central and Eastern Europe and Asia. So, there will be a significant time difference. However: you can use that ...
What does SHORE teams offer and competitors don't?
In fact our competitors are in 95% of the cases single development agencies. Let me guess what they advice: we can develop your project on (technology they offer). In stead of developing your project on the technology you need! In the Netherlands ...
What costs are involved with our services?
We don't charge you anything for our service. We get a kickback-fee from our IT partners if we create a lasting match. The only thing we expect is that you follow our process and seriously consider the development partner/developers we introduce you ...
What are the average hourly rates of developers?
Pretty often we get the question what the average hourly (or daily) rates are of our partner's developers. Ofcourse this really depends on: – Expertise (the rarity of the technology you're in) – Seniority (the more senior a developer should be, the ...
How to cope with time differences?
Time differences can be either a disadvantage, or can be an advantage. A disadvantage, since you can't communicate with your remote development team every minute of the working day. An advantage, because your remote team will work upon updates in the ...
How does our typical process look like?
Most of our clients use our service to start/expand their development team. They are looking for specific expertise or would like to cut costs on development/developers. We will hook you up with the best developers out there. We have a simple process ...
When are you ready to use SHORE teams' services?
First of all, to be really honest and open with you. We can't help you when: – you don't have budget yet – you're looking for some developers for short term (maximum of a few months). For example for a small sized project/new website, etcetera. We ...
How to overcome cultural differences?
You might face some cultural differences when you'll work with a nearshore or an offshore team. In Asia you will encounter greater cultural differences compared to Western Europe / USA than in Central or Eastern Europe. Let us tell you how our ...
In which verticals do SHORE teams' partners have experience?
We work with around 100 development partners, so there's a huge base of experience. Our partners work for: fintech-companies (including banking, insurances, blockchain), companies in health care, travel and leisure and education. Next to that that ...
Locations of our development partners (and teams)
SHORE teams' partners are mainly located in Central and Eastern Europe and Asia. We do have partners in: Belarus, Bulgaria, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Ukraine and in Asian countries like India, Pakistan, Vietnam and the Philippines. And do ...
Why you'd prefer outstaffing above outsourcing and in-house hiring?
First of all, hereby an explanation of what outsourcing and outstaffing is. In case of outsourcing, your development partner will work on a project. They're project responsible and the client has rarely access to the development team itself. The ...
Why you should use SHORE teams' services?
You can absolutely find the right development agencies on Google. However, it will be like a needle in a haystack, right? Every company out there will tell they're the best fit to your project. At SHORE teams we have a careful pre selection, before ...
Programming languages/technologies we cover
As we work with around 100 development partners, we can nearly cover any technology stack possible. As long as it is software, web or mobile development. Our partners are experienced in common technologies as: C#/.Net, Ajax, ASP, ASP.NET, C++, ...
How to protect your ideas and intellectual property?
When you get in touch with external parties a fear can be they'll steal your idea or will benefit from your intellectual property. Let me set you at rest a bit: 99% of the development agencies we work with are only interested in selling ...
Do the developers speak proper English?
The professionals working at our partner's offices are used to working remote for Western-European and US clients. Several of them have studied, lived or worked in these areas as well. Therefore most of them have excellent English communication ...