Our Approach

Outsourcing for full software development life cycle is a specific working model for the software development industry. Modern society is built around specialization; more tasks are outsourced today than ever before. The offshore outsourcing is an increasing trend. In today’s markets software development companies are under pressure, because they would like to release their products in the shortest time possible or to find solutions that are up to date, taking care that these are not at the expense of the quality or of the undue means. Therefore most of these companies choose outsourcing as an alternative means for their IT development.

During  12 years of experience in full software development life cycle and software outsourcing in Romania, Cluj Napoca, Codespring developed its own approach on outsourcing. As you can see in the Codespring Software Development Process Workflow and the Client’s Decision Map our approach values our two main assets:

1. Business Process know – how and expertise  in more than 13 industries
2. Software development know-how and expertise in the latest technology platforms

Why outsource?	Why Cluj Napoca, Romania?	Why Codespring?
Save money Focus on core business Expand with less risk Save Time Access experience Optimize productivity	Close to all European locations Time zone advantage Infrastructure advantage Cultural proximity Cost effective Internationally acknowledged IT skills Foreign languages at very high level Government support for the industry Great labour pool Strong history in research in all fields of engineering and software	Professional, in-house elaborated working methods Sound expertise Brand & corporate culture Demonstrated delivered quality Outstanding technical skills Proven agility Experience in building client relationships

Outsourcing software development processes has lots of advantages:

1. Save money: you can totally rationalize, design and account for the production.
2. Focus on your business: a professional team is in the pay of your company, thus your managers can focus on your business development and its competitiveness.
3. Expand your business with less risk: you can meet the need for quickly adding experienced professionals to your organization while having them increase your permanent head count.
4. Save Time: there is no business interruption in case of illness, holidays or trainings.

Our human resource department constantly delivers added value services due to our Career Management program:

Why to Outsource Software Development in Romania?

1. Romania, Europe’s favorite software development outsourcing location, is close to all European locations, so there are time zone and infrastructural advantages.
2. The Romanian culture is a European culture; furthermore Romania has become a member of the European Union since 2007.
3. Software development and operating costs are significantly lower in Romania than in Western Europe or in the USA.
4. Software developers in Romania receive a high-quality education in IT and usually speak at least one or two foreign languages.
5. Software development in Romania is a strategic industry and closely monitored and supported by the government.
6. Cluj-Napoca, „the city of Codespring”, is one of the most important economic, cultural and educational centers in Romania. Due to high quality education at the Babes-Bolyai University and Technical University many famous international companies, like Siemens, Nokia, Graphisoft and Emerson have placed their research and development centers in Cluj-Napoca.

Why choose Codespring as your software outsourcing team?

….. Because Codespring is outstanding …..

1. By its’ working methods in software development processes;
2. By its’ sound expertise in software development projects;
3. By its’ brand identity & corporate culture as a software development company;
4. By its’ delivered quality as software development customers can testify it;
5. By its’ technical skills for a wide sofware development platform;
6. By its’ agility in delivering software development services;
7. By its’ way of building client relationships in software development industry.

How to Outsource software development?

Select a compatible company.

1. Choose a company that understands your needs and can accommodate them.
2. A near offshore software development company is recommended which is close to you, where the time-zone difference is small; accordingly the work is more effective.
3. Check out the two key parameters of price and quality; it is worth paying even a little more for services of high quality.

Establish the standards you expect.

1. Outsourcing will mean the loss of direct control and supervision, so communicating the standards of performance you expect is a must.
2. Before you start any software development you should interview the software development candidates, to ensure they are the most eligible people for the task at hand.

Arrange for constant communication.

1. Schedule regular meetings with your outsourcing people to stay informed and discuss the day-to-day problems they have encountered.
2. Face to face meetings among the project managers and software developers are important, this will enable the work to run smoothly.

Get your project managers ready.

1. Your project managers should be fully aware of extra work in case of outsourcing; they should focus on communication, since the distance between the two companies is still exists.
2. For larger outsourcing components, you may even have project managers dedicated to managing the outsourced work.