Delivery-focused, Agile Approach
With over 15 years of agile experience, we adhere to agile principles, not one process in particular. We will work with you to adapt to your process while maintaining the successful tenants of agile.
When you're ready to start working with an it outsourcing partner, Orphosys Corp might be just the answer.
Let's TalkOrphosys Corp has been outsourcing software development service for the past 15 years, and we’ve become intimately acquainted with the process for determining whether or not to outsource. The most common reasons why companies outsource:
The company or project is lacking in software development bandwidth, and need to scale an engineering team quickly to meet market pressure or a tight product deadline;
The company seeks to improve its cost structure by outsourcing its engineering tasks to parties in lower cost countries (hence they are effectively outsourcing by offshoring);
Whatever your reason, Orphosys Corp is available to ensure you get the most out of your outsourcing engagement.
Orphosys Corp goes beyond providing software development services from a nearshore model. As a purpose-driven Colombian company we are dedicated to transforming lives through the provision of advanced technology solutions.
With over 15 years of agile experience, we adhere to agile principles, not one process in particular. We will work with you to adapt to your process while maintaining the successful tenants of agile.
We want to leverage expertise and momentum and that means investing in working together. We add more value to your organization when we commit to a longer term engagement.
Close proximity makes daily collaboration with your team that much easier, and when it’s time for a visit, flight times are significantly shorter than Asia and Eastern Europe.
We add value to projects that are complex and require a high-technical competency to get right. We love a good challenge, and we love creating impactful solutions. Orphosys Corp is a community of continuous learners, and nothing offers more learning opportunities than challenging projects.
Enhance your team with top-talent, cost effective, nearshore software development outsourcing services
Strong agile software development principles combined with a DevOps mindset means our nearshore agile teams add value fast. We’re ready to help you solve your most complex engineering challenges.
We deploy multidisciplinary, high-performance teams with nearshore proximity. Our teams become an extension of your development team, providing the expertise and scaling power needed to take your technology vision to the next level.
QA and test automation is an essential component of any successful application. Our expertise in test-driven development, API testing, UI testing, and performance testing, ensures the highest quality and greatest value for your application.
DevOps engineers can help you design and implement continuous delivery pipelines and elastic applications. Our DevOps specialists help guide the adoption of foundational concepts, not just technologies.
State-of-the-art cloud infrastructure translates to costs savings, elastic applications, and enhanced security and innovation. Our experts are available to consult, design, and build cloud architectures and help you get the most out of your cloud strategy.
We embrace existing solutions and transform them. Our teams are experts in enhancing maintainability and streamlining the process of adding new features. We aim to provide faster time to market and improved business value.
Several factors make Orphosys Corp’s agile software outsourcing services unique.
We are fully committed to agile and only deploy agile projects. Our experience of 5+ years running agile initiatives has convinced us that this is the best approach for engineering applications large and small, as it prioritizes product market fit and speed of innovation.
We train our teams intensively in sophisticated agile approaches to software development. These involve Test Driven Development, Continuous Integration and DevOps. Thus, Orphosys Corp is able to “marry” the velocity of agile with the discipline of conscientious software engineering (i.e. CMMi5) to create quality code that is highly maintainable and secure, and do so rapidly.
We choose people that are culturally compatible with our agile approach. Orphosys Corp team members are highly communicative, transparent, open to learning from each other and open to teaching others, open to expressing their opinions, curious and flexible.
Orphosys Corp has worked with hundreds of clients in agile engagements over the last 15 years. Many of these clientes were savvy in SCRUM and Kanban methodologies. However, many other clients were just starting to get familiar with Agile. For those clients seeking to start a first agile project via a nearshore outsourcing engagement, Orphosys Corp has developed a program that pursues two objectives:
Agile is highly flexible and is quick in showing results that can be put to production or tested with markets. However, it has to be done right to make sure agile’s potential is not hampered by buggy code, team disorganization or by code that is sloppy and hard to maintain.
For this reason, Orphosys Corp is highly disciplined in the way it implements agile software development. For one, all our agile projects involve test driven development (unit tests, automatic component testing, UI test robots, among others).
Furthermore, we run agile utilizing a continuous integration approach, which greatly diminishes regression testing efforts, and guarantees that the code that we deploy in each sprint is stable and end-user testable.
Finally, our agile methodologies are structured to be DevOps compatible, so that the end client may have a software platform that can be quickly and constantly upgraded with transparency and relative ease (remember that an application that wants to be competitive in the market never stops evolving!) All in all, Orphosys Corp’s agile approach accelerates ROI and produces quick results with quality.
We have run many projects in which we work hand-in-hand with software engineering teams at the client’s site. In some initiatives, we divide the work so that Orphosys Corp and the client teams are relatively autonomous in developing specific functionality for an application. Under such projects, it may be common that each teams runs agile in its own way. In other projects, both the client and Orphosys Corp’s engineers work together on the same functionality and under the same methodologies.
Regardless of the scenario at hand, Orphosys Corp will always start a nearshore outsourcing relationship by coordinating with the client the best way to manage an agile initiative and defining the following components:
Activities and Monitoring (how to run and groom the project backlog, which project management tool we use, how will we determine project status at any point in time);
Communication (who will participate in daily standups, what is expected of sprint retrospectives, how and when will we run sprint planning meetings, what channels should be open should questions arise as the sprint unfolds, what are the escalation points should issues arise, etc.);
Gauge success on an ongoing basis (what metrics will we use to understand project progress and productivity, how will feedback from end-users or beta users be brought back to the team, how will we generate a positive spiral of continuous improvement in the project).
Of course, there are many ways to implement the fundamental tenets of a successful agile nearshoring initiative. Our preference is to work with the client to try to adjust to the client’s current agile methodology. However, we will be insistent if we see that there are any areas that could be improved in the way the client is running the project, such as establishing a TDD approach, improving continuous integration practices, or making sure the software is DevOps ready.
Orphosys Corp deploys all software development engagements under a Time and Materials business model. We believe this model is both flexible and fair to the client.
Orphosys Corp charges the client hourly rates for the roles it deploys (i.e. a Senior Java engineer, a DevOps Specialist, a Junior QA Engineer, etc.) At the end of each month, Orphosys Corp shares with the client a detailed spreadsheet of how each engineer used its time. Orphosys Corp does not charge the client for an engineer’s vacation-time, sick days or company training time.
A Time and Materials model allows the client to tailor an agile SCRUM cell to each project’s highly specific requirements, and also allows the client to ramp teams up or down according to the needs of the nearshore outsourcing initiative at any given point in time.