If you've lost software developers while being closed by COVID-19, it could be hard to find new tech talent again. Here's a strategy for when the economy restarts.

Many of our San Francisco customers completely outsource their cloud-based application development to us here at INGENO. Either making software is not their core business, or they feel that acquiring and retaining tech talent is too much of a risk.

If you think that outsourcing is tricky or provides low-quality results, ask for the following: -

• Low friction, high visibility DevOps model

• Daily, zero downtime blue/green deployments to production

• Automated test suite with 100% coverage

• Scripted build and deployment pipelines

• AWS, GCP or Azure cloud-native services architecture

• Team member rotations every six months to foster knowledge redundancy

• No more than 3 hours timezone offset

These criteria create a trust factor between you and your outsourcing partner. You can then relax the need for oversight. This autonomy reduces friction, maximizes velocity and can remove a lot of go-to-market risks.

The challenge for many companies is trying to determine when to trade off quality for speed. I believe you can get both with a great partner.

At INGENO, we provide complete, autonomous development centers. You should call us!