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With our managed services model you can have any number of the nine disciplines that make up a professional software development team whenever you need them.  Let us put together a team based on your requirements but staffed by our full time employees that have years of enterprise software development experience.  You can even change your engagement model with us over time to suit your business.  Start with a dedicated or mixed discipline team and once your project is completed you can then change to work with us on an ad hoc project basis.  The same engineers will be around to work with you so the project experience is not lost.

How Does It Work?

We can provide dedicated engineers for your development projects that you can provide work instructions for and we will manage the rest.  We will recruit (if necessary), equip and home your developers so that you can concentrate on building your business. 

This approach to development is right for you if:

  • You might be developing your own product so you can decide what your engineers work on when, perhaps using agile development techniques. The low cost gives you a dedicated team without the hassles.
  • You want the freedom to concentrate on the software design and solution rather than the actual people management and build process.
  • You don't have the selection or management skills to hire and run a team yourself.
  • You want someone else to take responsibility for equipping and providing office space for your team.
  • You want to be able to have all the different skill sets required for professional software development available for your development projects but don't want to hire a ten man team to do the job.
  • You want to be able to scale up or down without having to manage the selection and de-selection process
  • You want to start up an already functioning team, working to proven and audited standards. Your product or project can then boast that it has been developed under certified ISO9001 conditions.  It will be professionally source code controlled, tested, documented and code reviewed.  You can be assured that if anyone carries out due diligence on your product it will pass with flying colours.  We have been audited not only by our own ISO auditors NQA but also by numerous professional auditing bodies such as the National Audit Office, Ernst & Young, Accenture and  Ofgem.
 

Why Not Hire Contractors?

Why Not Hire Contractors? An alternative to this way of working is obviously to hire your own team or use contractors to carry out your development projects.  Traditionally this was often the only alternative to having every project written by either in house developers or bespoke software companies. 

This can have the following disadvantages:  

  • You will have to equip each member of the team with a development PC plus the licensed development software to run on it.  For a Micrososft .Net developer this is a minimum investment of around £3,000. Our team comes fully equipped, ready for action.
  • You will need to find the contractor or full time engineer, this could take as long as 2 months and worse still you won't know for another couple of months whether they are good enough.  Our team comes with a proven track record, you can see the projects they have worked on, talk to other clients and at the end of the day you can choose to have them replaced if you wish, all without costing you a thing and without having to deal with the HR issues.
  • What happens if you want to scale down the team, or you get the first release of your project into production and want to take the pressure off for a while.  With your own team you have to let people go, their knowledge and experience walks out of the door with them and they will not want to come back.  And what are you going to do with that PC and their office space you are paying expensive rent and rates on?.  With our managed services you can scale the team back simply by providing some notice, we will move the team onto other client work but crucially we'll keep them at Trigger, ready if you want to ramp up development again or if you need some maintenance work done.

Highlights

  • All Major Languages
  • Broad Sector Experience 
  • Microsoft .Net Experts 
  • Rich Internet Apps
  • Rich Desktop Apps 
  • Open Source Experience 
  • Blue Chip Experience
  • ISO9001 Certified by NQA 

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