When it comes to buying Software Development Services, clients are typically stuck with a few classical options, such as :
- Renting “resources” for a given hourly/daily price. For instance, an “Intermediate Java/Jee Developer for 95$ / hour.
- Outsourcing (fixed-term, fixed-cost) to an offshore (or nearshore) team.
The goal of either renting resources or outsourcing your development is to increase the perceived flexibility and supposedly stay in control of your costs. Neat !
However, if you look at what happens in practice :
- One “resource” never equates another “equivalent” resource.
- The “equivalent” resource never fits the team the same way the previous one did
- Completely outsourcing your development might be well-suited for simple, well-defined domains that never change, but usually ends up costing way more than what was previously envisioned.
So, we had this idea : instead of selling mere “resources”, we want to experiment with selling complete teams such as pyxtreme. The idea is simple: you get a team of people who are used to work together, and whose skills are complementary. No more hidden costs of “team building”, no more randomness in the matching of personalities, you simply get a working team !