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Option 1: Hiring Full-Time Employees for a Software
Development Project
Many businesses and government agencies have already
discovered that it is not cost-effective to hire full
time employees to program, design and test computer
software. Some of the many reasons include:
• Projects tend to be of limited duration and it is
difficult to lay off employees upon completion of the
project.
• It is difficult to hire the best software people as a
full time employee.
• Software people are not typically interested in
transitioning into new roles when the programming has
been completed.
• Large work-gaps may occur in software development
projects due to changes to program specifications,
leading to expensive idle time for software people.
• A software person or team may not have all of the
skill sets necessary to make a project successful,
leaving skill gaps that hurt the project.
Option 2: Hiring Contractors for a Software Development
Project
Due to the aforementioned problems, businesses and
government agencies turned to hiring software people on
a contractual basis. This resolved some problems, but it
left major problems unresolved and created new problems.
Contractors eliminate the arduous process of laying off
full-time employees at the end of a short-term project.
You also have a better chance of hiring more talented
personnel via a contract. However these problems remain:
• Large work gaps may occur in software development
projects due to changes to program specifications,
leading to expensive idle time for software people.
• A software person or team may not have all of the
skill sets necessary to make a project successful,
leaving skill gaps that hurt the project.
The following new problems present themselves:
• Contractors tend to be unavailable to provide on-going
support and maintenance after the initial work has been
completed.
• Contractors may not follow the same development
standards for procedures and documentation as other
software people, leading to costly re-writes in the
future.
• They may be able to convince you that they have the
necessary skill sets, when in fact they do not and you
end up paying a significant hourly rate while they learn
on the job!
Why not hire WSI for all of your software development
requirements?
Winning Solutions, Inc. has the system that solves all
of the above problems while mitigating some minor new
problems introduced by our system.
At Winning Solutions, Inc. we will tell you in advance
how much your programming project will cost and how long
it will take to complete. We will provide this in
writing and even guarantee our work for a period of 120
days after your acceptance. If you have not defined your
project, WSI will provide you a written estimate for
this service and produce a written document that will
serve as part of a Request for Proposals that you may
send out or as a Statement of Work that will be used to
create your agreement with WSI.
WSI provides a workplace that software people enjoy.
This allows us to hire and retain talented people. The
reason developers enjoy working for WSI is that they are
able to work on a diverse set of projects, instead of
the same thing every day. They are also able to interact
with developers from other teams/projects to collaborate
and solve problems. This environment leads to increased
productivity which allows WSI to deliver first-class
work at prices that tend to be much lower than using
contractors.
Our professionally managed dynamic software project
development environment is what allows WSI to achieve
this increased efficiency. We are able to shift
resources between projects when the inevitable project
gaps occur. This ensures that you NEVER pay for someone
to sit around waiting for testing to complete or a
business decision to be made.
If clients have their own project managers or developers
they are welcome to work alongside the WSI team during
the project.
WSI does NOT retain rights to the source code it
develops during your project as many of our
project-based competitors do.
Thanks to this revolutionary approach, WSI is able to
employ a sufficiently diverse team so that such
specialized personnel as graphic designers are available
to your project when needed. This ensures that your
program has a professional look and feel while being
easy to use.
Because all WSI programmers are required to adhere to
specific development standards, WSI is able to provide
on-demand support and updates for your software for
years to come. We even offer such support on an hourly
basis with no annual maintenance agreement requirements!
We invite you to have WSI develop your next software
project and we think you will be one of our many clients
who will never go back to using contractors. However, if
that is not the case, WSI will be glad to supply
contractors for your next project. |
