How To Work With an Outsourced Tech Firm To Get Your Product Built
Five ways to mitigate the risk of unpleasant surprises
Having an experienced technical resource on your side to help you turn your vision into reality is an amazing feeling. Until it isn’t.
That’s the number one problem I hear from companies who work with an outsourced firm to build out their tech:
“I don’t know that things are going poorly until it’s too late.”
One of the stops on my startup journey was the several years I spent running a technical and product consulting firm. Smaller companies and startups would hire us to outsource their technical build, huge corporations and government organizations would hire us to be a technical bullshit detector on their outsourced development.
Here’s the cold fact. Technical development is full of risk and unknowns.
There are two ways to react to that reality. One is to shrug and hope for the best, the other is to mitigate the risk of unpleasant surprises from the moment you engage a technical firm.
I’ll distill my experience on the other side to talk about how to save your company some headache and maybe even a ton of money.
