Software Development Management

Outsourcing Users

At DCG we draw on our extensive experience in the software industry to provide two distinct services in the outsourcing arena.

“DCG benchmarked our software development organization, identified flexibility constraints that were impacting our ability to take on more work rapidly, and defined a good solution increasing our outsourcing capabilities. With our managers focused on major client initiatives, DCG quickly implemented a discovery and vendor search program. We seamlessly picked up the initiative and drove our outsourcing capabilities from 3% to 15% of headcount. Thanks to DCG, within 12 months we were able to turn a problem without a solution into a powerful strategic and tactical tool.”

- Michael Jones, CFO, Convergys Information Management

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Outsourcing Consulting
Without proper governance structures, many outsourcing engagements can fall well short of expectations in terms of delivery and financial performance.

We offer consulting services in each of our Practice Areas to assist customers who are considering or already outsourcing their software application development and maintenance or IT operations. These center on the development of rigorous frameworks designed to give our clients sustainable outsourcing governance, e.g. we use our long experience in the auditing, measurement and sizing of software to create metrics and service level agreements that can be captured in your outsourcing contracts.

Taken together, we help clients to implement very effective risk management of their outsourcing relationships to ensure expectations match the reality.

For a full description of our Outsourcing Consulting Services, please download our brochure.

Outsourcing Specialist Services to the David Consulting Group
Many of our clients invest in the staff skills to sustain their improvement programs on a permanent basis. For others, it is hard to keep sufficient high quality specialist staff engaged on a permanent basis or they simply decide that, for their volume needs and with much of their work already outsourced, they prefer to outsource these specialist functions to an independent third party. In either case, they find that DCG can provide the best quality at the right price.

We provide outsourced services in the following disciplines:

Function point counting
Use case point counting
Software measurement analysis
Process and Product Quality Assurance (PPQA)
Audits

We are able to provide these services both on and offshore and are happy to commit to long term contracts driven by Service Level Agreements.