Artur Belka

Outsourcing software development has emerged as a cost-effective business strategy. As of 2021, the IT outsourcing sector is the primary revenue driver in the IT Services market, generating US$361 billion. Amidst thousands of competitors, they will compete vigorously for your attention if you're seeking to outsource a digital product. Projected to hit US$587.3 billion by 2027, this expanding market prompts the question: do you truly need an outsourcing service?

In this article, we will describe five examples of digital transformation. Come and see how organizations that master digital transformation use it for their benefit!

Find out how the lean startup methodology gives you a faster, more efficient development process and a better digital product!

Any design or development project needs a clear idea from the start of exactly what is being built, and why. For any application this ‘clear idea’ could easily be a long list of requirements - static, rigid list of specifications for the project. However, with the fluid nature of the digital world, most software projects benefit from some flexibility – they need to shift their focus in response to new information, user requirements or business needs. Hence our use of the agile scrum methodology. User story mapping is a technique to break down all the mentioned requirements into prioritized steps in the development process. It helps to map the connections and dependencies between all the software pieces.

In the previous article in the series – Crisis strategies for building software, web products and online services – we identified eight organizational risk management strategies for complex and chaotic times, aimed at not only keeping your business afloat during a crisis but positioning yourself to emerge all the stronger. These broad strategies included aspects of digital transformation and working in more agile and lean ways

To stand out in the marketplace, quality apps that are user favorites can make all the difference. While there’s no recipe for final success, there are some tools that can help you with it. For us, the main tool is the scrum framework and its role in software development. Scrum development offers an approach that brings all the key players and skills together to produce digital products in a series of rapid and highly efficient instalments.

The sprint retrospective is a critical part of the scrum agile methodology for software and digital development. A supportive, facilitated environment – either face to face or online – allows everyone involved to constructively review and consider feedback, resulting in specific action steps for improvement signed up to by the whole team. This article contains guidance on structuring your sprint retrospective meetings, including a number of suggested approaches and tools.

If you want a successful mobile or web app or other digital product that translates your business idea into a genuine success, prototyping can be a valuable tool as part of the design process. Prototypes are usually relatively cheap and quick to produce and help you engage with users early to test the basic product concept.

Until recently, Poland was the global leader for external software development services, but the latest trends indicate that the competition is growing. East-Central Europe, South Asia, and even Africa and South America have become increasingly popular as outposting destinations for Western companies.

Prototyping can be used as the first experiment stage in the product development process; the first chance to show your concept to users. Prototypes come in many different forms but each one is created to test the underlying design concept. User reactions are then used to guide the next phase of development.

Arguably, nothing changes without learning. There’s no progress, no growth, no improvement without it. As the saying goes, “Those who fail to learn from history are condemned to repeat it.”* Any development endeavor that seeks to be better/faster/more must include learning in its process, and taking a lean startup approach to business is no exception.

Artificial intelligence will soon become universal. Currently, investment rates are high but complete, tested products in operation are still relatively unusual. That said, a report from McKinsey clearly indicates that we are at a tipping point and AI and machine learning are set to be a dominant theme in tomorrow’s technology.