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Software development in Germany, just like in the rest of Europe, constitutes a challenge due to its time-consuming nature and a deficiency of experienced software developers.\n\n**Germany is considered the biggest market for software development** and therefore needs reliable software partners to help it fulfill their needs to the highest standards.\n\n\n\n## Software development in Germany - what are the challenges?\n\n### High potential creates high expectations and competition\n\n**Germany's software development market continues to be in a state of robust growth.** As the biggest software market in Europe, it represents approximately **25% of the total European market**, outpacing both Ireland and Italy (second and third place, respectively: [source](https://www.statista.com/statistics/1380403/top-software-development-countries-in-europe/)). Expectations are for the German software development market to experience an annual growth rate [of 4.16% from 2023 to 2028.](https://www.statista.com/outlook/tmo/software/germany) However, with great potential also comes heightened competition.\n\nEven though companies such as IBM, Oracle, and SAP are important players, the market is dominated by highly specialized SMEs which also drive significant demand and create a promising customer base. This leads to two challenges:\n\n1. **High customer expectations** - since there is a lot of product variety, customers can afford to be picky, and they don't have to compromise on quality. Since German brands strive for excellence, they will only cooperate with software development partners who can fulfill their high demands.\n2. **Talent competition -** Germany, just like most markets worldwide, suffers from a lack of skilled software engineers. In fact, current estimates show the shortage of tech talent in Germany growing [12% year on year](https://codesubmit.io/blog/shortage-of-developers/). The more software companies on the market, the wider the choice for potential employers of software developers, which might prove problematic. To further show the limited availability of tech talent in the country, the most recent [MINT report](https://arbeitgeber.de/en/mint-fruehjahrsreport-2022-deutschland-fehlen-320-600-mint-arbeitskraefte/) (Mathematik Informatik Naturwissenschaft und Technik; in English, STEM: science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) showed just over 180,000 STEM job seekers for nearly half a million vacancies – a shortfall of 320,000+.\n\n### Skill shortages\n\nWhile overall, the German labor market’s record-low unemployment rate continues to fall, especially for programmers, **there are significant skill shortages in the engineering space**. Especially in sciences, engineering, and software development. Knowing how competitive the German market is, filling the recruitment gap is going to be difficult. According to [Prognos](https://themunicheye.com/german-engineering-skill-shortage-hits-hard-3469), **by 2030 as many as three million skilled workers might be missing in various industries**.\n\n### Lack of talent pool limits investment\n\nNot having enough talent available might seriously impede investment. Competition between European cities is fierce, they all fight for the interest of startup founders. One of the key factors which investors and founders take into account while deciding where to set up a business is talent accessibility. Europe is an attractive hub for software developers with over 6 million professional developers working in Europe.\n\n**Germany and the UK are home to the most significant number of software developers, i.e. over [1.7 million](https://2019.stateofeuropeantech.com/chapter/people/article/strong-talent-base/?cgid=196#chart-63).** However, since Germany is the biggest software market, this number is less impressive than it initially appears. For Germany to remain the A-player in the software industry and to attract a large pool of investment, it has to find a way to maintain a continuous flow of talent. It's not mission impossible! We will discuss how it can be achieved later in this article.\n\n## To outsource or not to outsource?\n\n> To be honest, if you already have an in-house development team that is capable of providing the highest quality, then **you don’t need outsourcing.** \n\nOn the other hand, if you feel that hiring new people, or investing in new skills for your in-house team might be overwhelming for your budget, you should think about working with external partners.\n\n## Cost of software development in Germany\n\nSoftware development cost estimations should consider the following factors:\n\n### Salaries of the dev team\n\nBuilding software is not a cheap endeavor! You can't build software without building a development team first. Devs' salaries constitute the biggest cost component. **If you were to hire a programmer in Berlin, expect to pay them an average of [€51,203 annually](https://www.payscale.com/research/DE/Job=Software_Developer/Salary).** If your team was made up of just four developers, that’s over €200,000 a year. And that’s only software engineers. Ideally, your team should include quality assurance specialists, [project managers or scrum masters](https://www.boldare.com/blog/what-is-a-scrum-master-role-and-difference-between-manager/), UI and UX designers, etc.\n\n### The time it takes to build a high-performing software team\n\nCompanies in almost every industry rely on programmers, which makes recruiting them even harder. [Of employers, 86% of employers](https://andela.com/insights/indeed-survey-83-hiring-managers-say-tech-talent-shortage-hurts-business/) claim that hiring skilled developers has become a real problem. And finding the right match for your company is just half the formula.\n\nOnboarding also takes a significant amount of time. You can't expect a new programmer to be fully productive right from day one. It can take up to a [few months](https://supportdriven.com/2018/06/19/how-long-does-it-really-take-to-get-new-hires-up-to-speed/) to bring them up to speed. **Overall, it takes between 3-6 months to build a high-performing software development team from scratch.**\n\nTo be able to win in this highly competitive and demanding market, you'll have to hire the best talent. Your software is only as good as your dev team.\n\n### Office rental cost\n\nThe COVID-19 pandemic saw some changes to the workplace with a surge in home that continues today. That said, our experience is that most companies are still investing in office space (either because they are looking at hybrid working patterns, or simply because it’s still necessary to have a central office for people to meet and visit).\n\nIf you want your development to be office-based or at least have access to an office, you need to consider the cost. [Rental costs in Germany](https://www.statista.com/statistics/546173/prime-rents-by-city-germany/) vary from city to city. **In Frankfurt and Munich it costs an average of €45 per square meter to rent office space; while in Berlin it's €43.**\n\nPrices have risen significantly over the years. **Office rent is now more than 50% higher than it was ten years ago**. The rental cost, however, is something that can be quite easily mitigated. More about that later.\n\n### The cost of poor quality in software development\n\nIf there is one thing which you really shouldn't save your money on, it's your dev team. Cooperating with unskilled programmers might result in poor quality software, and the cost of poor quality software can be massive. \n\n**In the US alone, it accounted for [$2.41 trillion in 2022](https://www.it-cisq.org/the-cost-of-poor-quality-software-in-the-us-a-2022-report/) due to external and internal failures and deficiencies, technical debt, management failures, canceled projects, and money spent on expensive customer support.**\n\nYour product development team will have a decisive impact on your end product. Knowing how competitive the German market is, and how demanding the customers are, it is not an option to compromise on quality.\n\n\n\n## Software development in Germany - how to tackle the challenges?\n\nIf the previously mentioned challenges are not addressed, software development in Germany might prove problematic. Here are a few ideas on how you can turn problems into opportunities.\n\n### Seek talent beyond Germany\n\nThere are [27.7 million](https://www.statista.com/statistics/627312/worldwide-developer-population/) **software developers worldwide**, why limit yourself to Germany only? Especially considering how scarce the programming talent is and how long the recruitment process takes. Also, who says you necessarily need an in-house product development team?\n\n**Working with an external software development partner will help you eliminate the problem of hiring and onboarding devs.** Although you'll have to carefully select the company you're going to cooperate with (and there are plenty out there) you'll get a full set of competencies which would otherwise take a lot of time to find.\n\n**Where should you look?** In Poland – and not because we're a Polish product development company. **Polish software developers are among the best in the world.** They regularly get the highest ranks in international programming competitions like Google Code Jam, Microsoft Imagine Cup, or TopCoder. **What's more, their salaries are significantly lower than the salaries of their German counterparts.**\n\n> **An average software developer salary in Poland is [€31,712](https://www.payscale.com/research/PL/Job=Software_Developer/Salary).**\n\nBy choosing a Polish software development company you’ll be able to save a significant amount of money without compromising on quality. **As a reminder, the average developer’s salary in Germany stands at €51,203 – that’s almost 40% higher than in Poland.** And when you consider the salaries of the entire team, it becomes a massive cost, and money that you could potentially invest elsewhere.\n\nAt Boldare, we have experience working with German companies from various sectors including the [renewable/green and energy sector](https://www.boldare.com/work/#industry-energy).\n\n\n\n### Remember: Agile is your best friend\n\n**At Boldare, we work using an agile framework.** It helps us to create better software, and for various reasons, it’s a good choice also for our partners (you can explore this topic in our article “[The great dilemma. Agile or waterfall?](https://www.boldare.com/blog/agile-vs-waterfall/)”). It’s mainly because at the very core of Agile, there is a belief that customer satisfaction and a focus on their needs improves the quality of delivered software. Thanks to agile, we work in iterations by releasing small but functional pieces of software regularly, making it easy to improve and pivot if necessary.\n\nWe mention this approach because it’s still uncommon for many software companies in Eastern Europe or developing countries. However, at Boldare we align our work with [lean startup methodologies](https://www.boldare.com/blog/what-is-lean-startup-methodology/), agile and scrum. This helps us set up processes to build software quickly, efficiently, and to the highest quality. Following agile lets us spot and eliminate errors as soon as they arise, which speeds up time to market and reduces development costs.\n\nAt Boldare, we value privacy and security, so we have strict processes to deliver finished products to customers.\n\n### Faster time to market and lower product development costs\n\nIf you decide to work with an external software development team, you get a full package of skills and experience. This means getting your product faster and more cheaply. Software development costs will depend on the project's complexity. **At Boldare, we usually work with projects over $20,000**, as we prefer to work with more challenging products. **It takes us between 6 to 8 weeks to release an MVP to the market, with a starting price for development of $30,000**; including project consulting, design, and development.\n\nWe're also open to working with abandoned digital products and bringing them back to life! Occasionally, we take over digital products which were badly managed by unreliable software development companies. They couldn’t finalize the project due to a lack of skills and expertise, miscommunication, etc. Being skilled software engineers with a problem-solving attitude, we’re able to effectively take over the unfinished product, investigate what it lacks, propose a solution, and create a finished version.\n\n\n\n### Cooperating with an external partner = no need for an office\n\nOffice rental costs can be burdensome. Cooperating with an external software development partner will help you mitigate this problem. In this day and age, working remotely has become a common practice. You don't need to be in the same place at the same time to create remarkable products. Look at **Zapier** or **Hotjar** – both of these companies successfully operate remotely.\n\nHowever, **if you feel the need to meet face to face, then Poland is just around the corner**. It takes 5 hours to drive from Berlin to Gliwice (where Boldare’s headquarters are), and less than 6 hours to get from Berlin to Warsaw (where we have an office). And if you're not into driving, then there are numerous busy airports that you could use to get to your desired destination.\n\n## Concluding thoughts\n\n**Software development in Germany is not an easy endeavor due to the market's specificity**, i.e. its significant competition, demanding customers, and scarce programming talent. It is the biggest software market in Europe, however, and there are steps you can take to explore its potential.\n\n**Looking for talent beyond Germany will help you tackle the problem of programmer deficit.** Poland has some of the best programmers in the world. Cooperating with external software development partners will not only help you save on various costs (like office rentals, employee benefits, etc.) but it will also equip you with a more complete skill set. Working with companies who follow lean software development practices (e.g. agile and scrum) will ensure faster error elimination, lower development costs, and as a result, faster time to market.\n\n"}],"job":null,"photo":null,"slug":null,"cover":"/img/costs-challenges-and-chances_of_software_development_in_germany1.png","lead":"**When you think of Germany, what comes to mind?** I am thinking BMW (which I am a massive fan of), Mercedes-Benz, Siemens... What do these brands have in common? They stand for high quality. The 50 most respected German brands, i.e. brands which have the highest corporate value (measured in financial and non-financial terms) have a combined equity of [€263 billion](https://www.consultancy.eu/news/963/the-50-most-valuable-brands-companies-in-germany), which puts Germany ahead of France and the UK.","templateKey":"article-page","specialArticle":false,"isNewWork":null,"isNewNormal":null,"service":null,"settings":{"date":"2023-04-11T05:54:18.438Z","slug":"software-development-in-germany-costs-challenges-and-chances","type":"blog","slugType":null,"category":"Strategy","additionalCategories":["Outsourcing"],"url":null},"author":"Paweł Kański","authorAdditional":null,"box":{"content":{"title":"Software development in Germany - costs, challenges, and chances","tileDescription":"Germany's software development market is in a state of robust growth. 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Applying criteria such as development methodology and cultural fit can help you broaden your search for the right outsourcing partner, including other regions and territories. Done well, that search can result in a product better-suited to user needs, for a lower cost, and with a greater impact on your identified market.\n\n**This guide will walk you through all the key factors in finding and choosing a software development partner**, looking at whether outsourcing is right for you, what benefits you can expect from outsourcing, and what criteria to use when considering a list of possible suppliers.\n\nAt this point, you may be wondering what qualifies us to talk about this. But instead of bragging here, we’d rather you checked out our reviews and endorsements on Clutch.co because our [36 reviews](https://clutch.co/profile/boldare) will give you the best idea of who we are and what we’ve done. For now, let’s just say that Boldare is a software development and design company with an agile attitude and 16 years’ experience to offer. We’ve worked with clients from all over the world, creating 250+ digital products along the way, and we focus on design and development that marries the client company’s business needs with their users’ requirements. Moving on…\n\n## Outsourcing - a quick definition\n\nJust to make sure we’re all on the same page, **outsourcing** is the practice of using outside companies or organizations to provide a service you choose not to tackle in-house. In other words, software development outsourcing is using an external development company – often due to reasons of cost, time or a lack of capacity or skills – to create, test and deliver your digital product. The arrangement requires close communication between client and provider and a great deal of trust.\n\n## Top reasons companies outsource software development\n\nWhat prompts a company to consider **outsourcing its app or web development**? Like any other business solution, outsourcing is used to solve a problem. Depending on the specific client, that problem might be:\n\n### A lack of time\n\nSoftware development can be a slow process, especially when done by an in-house team with conflicting projects and priorities. Sometimes market opportunities have a naturally small window of time before trends move on or technology advances.A dedicated outsourced team will focus only on your project - that’s their main purpose. Such a team is able to achieve much more. For example, Boldare teams have worked on several time-sensitive projects, including **creating an MVP from scratch of an e-commerce platform in just six weeks.**\n\n### A lack of skills and experience\n\nUnless you have in-house developers who maintain their professional knowledge and skills through regular personal development, then you need to look elsewhere for a team to deliver your cutting edge web platform or mobile app. As a business, software development is at best just one of the plates you’re spinning (along with sales, production, customer service, etc.) and a dedicated software development outsourcing company is almost always going to be better-equipped to deliver the best possible digital product.\n\n**Growing in-house talent is almost always worth it but it takes months and years**, and you need your product yesterday. An outsourcing provider should be able to connect you with a dedicated team of experts, ready to hit the ground running, with a skillset tailored to your project needs.\n\n### A lack of money\n\n**Outsourcing is definitely less expensive** than recruiting and building an in-house team of developers. It is always a cheaper option when compared with the long-term costs of recruiting, developing and maintaining your own in-house team of experts.\n\n\n\n## How much does it cost to outsource software development?\n\nIt depends on various factors and this is why you won’t find a fixed price list on the website of any of the **best software development companies.** It’s like asking how much a car costs - there are huge price differences even if you take into account only brand new cars, in only one market and one segment. But let’s focus on software instead of cars.\n\nAs with many professions, developer rates vary greatly, according to skills, experience, and the geographical territory in which they operate. For a helpful snapshot of developer salaries, and a comparison of the rates you can expect to pay in Western Europe, Eastern Europe, the US, and India, check our article:\n\n\n\n## 8 benefits of outsourcing your software development\n\nSo, if the time-skills-cost triumvirate are the incentives pushing you to seek out a software development outsourcing partner, what benefits can you expect from the arrangement?\n\n1. **Product ready for release quicker** – Whether it’s a web platform, mobile app or other digital tool, outsourcing can get your product user-ready sooner; resulting in feedback on an **MVP**, a new product launch, or a scaled-up version ready to crack new markets.\n2. **Scalability** – An outsourced software development team is itself scalable. As your project needs change, so can the team, adjusting the number of developers to meet the project’s objectives.\n3. **Off-the-shelf knowledge, experience, and skills** – What’s more, an outsourced team (well, the right outsourced team) provides a broader set of skills and experience than an in-house option. Ideally, your outsourcing partner will assemble a dedicated team, handpicked to give your product the know-how it needs.\n4. **A better quality product** – Arguably, an outsourced software development partner will create a better quality digital product for you. Unlike an in-house team with conflicting priorities, a dedicated design and development company is focused on what’s new and what’s working now, meaning they often bring better technology and tools to bear on your project, applying the latest industry insights.\n5. **Reduced costs** – With an external outsourced team, you’re only paying for the time they spend working on your digital product. This means you’re only spending on product development and not employee-related supporting costs, such as healthcare, retirement plans, other benefits, etc.\n6. **A longer-lasting partnership** – If you’re building one digital product, you’re likely to want to build more (a common business trend) and in that case, you’ll benefit from a long-term relationship with a trusted software development partner. When you find an outsourcing service that works for your business and your customers, you’ll want to keep them.\n7. **More time on your core business** – While the external team handle your digital product development, you and your in-house people can focus on other critical business needs.\n8. **Knowledge transfer** – More than simply producing a great digital product, a good outsourced partner will also share their specialist knowledge with you. As ‘side effects’ of the software development process go, this is especially valuable, giving your in-house people new knowledge, methodologies and experience which then can then apply to your future projects.\n\nIn fact, the [Deloitte Global Outsourcing Survey](https://www2.deloitte.com/us/en/pages/operations/articles/global-outsourcing-survey.html) confirmed that businesses outsource services in order to reduce costs (59%), focus on core business (57%), and address skills or capacity issues (47%).\n\n**\\>>> A step by step [guide to Event Storming](https://www.boldare.com/blog/event-storming-guide/) – our experience**\n\n## Biggest challenges of software outsourcing\n\nJust as with any other business undertaking, software development outsourcing can be challenging. From our experience we have identified the three most disruptive challenges that can occur:\n\n### Lack of understanding of the project’s business goal\n\nWe start every new business relationship with a product discovery workshop. At this event, our new partner has a chance to meet the dedicated team and speak directly with them to explain the business goal. Beware of software outsourcing companies who are only focused on building an app. It may sound strange, but software development is not only about creating software. It’s about fulfilling the business goal that stands behind the app, and both sides of the collaboration must understand it. **Make sure your potential outsourcing partner can help you with setting and validating business goals and has previous experience working with them.**\n\nAt Boldare, we work closely with our partners from the very first day of collaboration (using techniques such as product discovery, impact mapping, and design thinking) and we offer business support at every stage of the software development process.\n\n### Poor communication\n\nThis may sound trivial, but poor communication can be fatal to such a complicated endeavor as software development. Working in different time zones, language barriers, incompatible communication tools, or an inability to visit the team that is working for you might all be harmful to your project. However, these are not insurmountable problems.\n\nWhen looking for a **software development** partner**,** pay attention to the country and location, its culture (is it similar to yours?), and most importantly, look for their experience working with similar companies, industries or regions to your own. At Boldare, we have worked with companies from around the globe (including North America, the Middle East, and Australia) and we understand the value of communicating well.\n\n### Inflexible mindset\n\nAt any stage, if you think that the description of your mobile or web app is done and written in stone, then you’re most likely wrong! **Software development is like cooking**, you should always be ready to adjust the ingredients or add some seasoning - in other words, adapt, pivot and change your aims - if you want to serve up the best possible app to your users. This is why we use an agile approach with every app we make. It helps to create better, more customer-oriented software. (For more, you can read about this approach in our blog post, “[This is how Boldare Development Teams process addresses your business needs](https://www.boldare.com/blog/agile-process-for-digital-product-development/)”.)\n\nOf course, these three are not the only challenges you may face. But these three are the most common risks to your project.\n\n\n\n## Factors to consider when choosing your outsourcing partner\n\nLet’s say you’re convinced that software development outsourcing is the way to go… where do you start? Start googling and the world can seem full of software developers, all promising the latest bleeding edge technologies and techniques. **How do you find your perfect outsourcing partner in all that static?**\n\nSimply put, it’s like any other recruitment or hiring process: know what you want and need, set some clear and measurable criteria based on those wants and needs, draw up a shortlist of potential partners that appear to meet those criteria, then contact each shortlisted provider to find out which of them are the best fit for the project and your company.\n\nThe following are the common factors to take into account when deciding your criteria:\n\n### Software development methodology\n\nWhen it comes to the methodology used to develop your digital product, we believe (in reality, we know) that there is a clear and correct answer: use agile not waterfall! To explain further…\n\nWaterfall is the traditional method of software development (derived from pre-digital manufacturing processes); around since the 70s and definitely obsolete. Agile, on the other hand, describes more 21st century approaches (such as scrum), specifically created for better, more flexible and open software development. The following table offers a quick summary of the differences:\n\n![Agile vs waterfall ](Agile_vs_Waterfall.png \"Agile vs waterfall \")\n\nPerhaps the biggest fundamental difference between the waterfall and agile approaches to software development is that **in agile, the user and their satisfaction are at the heart of the project** (hence the built-in flexibility) whereas in waterfall, the project plan and project documentation is king.\n\n### Skills & experience\n\nJust as you’d check a potential new hires resume, you need to look closely at a potential partner’s portfolio. What skills and knowledge can they deploy? What other companies have they worked with (preferably in your industry sector)? Do they have case studies that you can look at? What about online reviews from past customers (**[Clutch.co](https://clutch.co/profile/boldare)** is excellent for this, because they conduct their own analyses and interviews with listed companies; i.e. the reviews you read there are expert opinions and not just user commentaries)? When making comparisons, remember to look at what previous clients say about the experience, the process, and not just the end product. In other words, what are they like to work with? And does that fit with your own company culture and ways of working?\n\n### Teams\n\n**Here’s a tip:** you should know (and be able to meet and talk to) each individual member of your outsourced development team. What’s more, that team should include more than developers; your product may (and probably will) need designers, quality analysts, and testers.\n\nIdeally, the team allocated to deliver your mobile app or web platform is dedicated to your project, i.e. not working on anything else at the same time. That dedication, coupled with regular and direct contact between team members and you, the client, helps ensure that you get the right product for the right market, at the right time.\n\n### Communication\n\nJust to reinforce this point (which we feel cannot be overstated), communication between client and development team members is crucial to project success. From some form of initial meeting or workshop to discuss and agree the project vision and priorities, to regular reviews, and the need for easy, direct contact when questions arise, the quality of your communication will directly influence the quality of the final product.\n\nThe key question is, **do you have access to the project and team members at every stage of the development process?**\n\n### Security\n\nIt’s a digital product, almost certainly accessing both user and company data, therefore your outsourced provider’s information security arrangements are an important factor. It’s a key area to explore with a potential provider: **Where do they store data? What security measures do their servers have in place? What are their business disaster recovery plans, should the worst happen?**\n\n### Time zones\n\nYou’re looking to develop digital products in a digital world, and in terms of geography, the world is your oyster. However, while you can work seamlessly with a software development outsourcing partner on the other side of the world, it’s worth considering time zones. Especially if you’re set on an agile project approach which encourages communication with the client regularly and often. **Maybe it’s not a dealbreaker but it can be inconvenient if your outsourced team of developers doesn’t have experience of working with clients at such a distance.**\n\n### Different legal frameworks\n\nIf at any point, there is a dispute between client and provider, clarity is needed over which territory’s legislation applies. **One clear benefit of EU clients outsourcing to providers in other EU countries is that both parties are operating within the same, familiar legal framework.**\n\n### Cultural fit\n\nBuilding on the previous point, more and more, companies are drawn to foreign providers for low-cost software development. **And yes, the best-suited development partner is often in a different country or region**. That may carry distinct advantages in terms of costs and efficiency, however, working with people from a different culture to your own does throw up some additional issues to assess:\n\n* Do they have experience working with clients in your country/region?\n* Are their working methodologies compatible with yours?\n* **How stable is the team?** Often, countries offering lower prices also have lower living standards, which means the possibility of economic migration and the most gifted developers being attracted to working elsewhere for greater reward… leaving you potentially paying less money for less talent.\n* **How innovative are they?** By nature, software development is an innovative process, so how does the provider’s home country score on innovation? One option is to check an innovation index, such as the [Bloomberg Innovation Index](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-01-22/germany-nearly-catches-korea-as-innovation-champ-u-s-rebounds), which takes into account a country’s political, education, infrastructure and business factors.\n* **Where do their programmers rank?** Take a look at international coding and programming competitions to get an idea of where the top talent is these days; such as Google Code Jam, Microsoft Imagine Cup or the Central European Programming Contest.\n\n\n\n## Outsourcing software development to eastern Europe - western quality and eastern prices\n\n When looking to get the most ‘bang for your buck’, you’re looking for a team that can offer high product quality, with a rapid turnaround, at a low price. As already mentioned, balancing this trio of goals leads many companies to look abroad for software development services. Bearing in mind the factors mentioned above, it’s fair to say that Eastern Europe has emerged as one of the world’s software development hotspots; this is why…\n\n* **Language skills** – Language is a potentially huge barrier to working across borders. The current reality is that in Western countries, English is still the lingua franca. Countries such as Poland, Hungary, Romania and the Czech Republic have a history of high scores on the [EF English Proficiency Index](https://www.ef.com/epi/about-epi/executive-summary/).\n* **Business environment** – Legislation and regulations determine how compatible the provider’s home country is in terms of doing business with foreign clients. [The Doing Business](https://www.doingbusiness.org/content/dam/doingBusiness/media/Annual-Reports/English/DB2018-Full-Report.pdf) annual report, from the World Bank Group, assesses 190 economies based on business rules property rights.\n* **Technical talents** – Based on thousands of developers tackling online coding challenges, HackerRank offers insights into where to find the best programmers in the world. HINT: Eastern Europe has three countries in the top ten (#3: Poland; #5: Hungary; #9: Czech Republic).\n* **Innovation** – Referring to the innovation indices mentioned earlier, Poland is the leading country for innovation in Eastern Europe.\n\n## Do you need software development outsourcing services?\n\n**The answer depends on the resources you have within your organization**. Based on our experience, we can say that most companies that want to develop an app from scratch or scale existing solutions, would benefit from outsourcing.\n\nBut there’s also a group of companies that have all the necessary resources, and trying to convince them to outsource something that they can do in-house would be unprofessional. If you want to explore this topic in more detail, see the following article:\n\n\n\n## Software development outsourcing - the summary\n\nNaturally, at Boldare, we’re in favour of **outsourcing software development** but not only due to self-interest (honest!). In reality, our years of developing products for clients all over the world means we know exactly what the advantages of outsourcing are, and how to leverage them fully with our clients:\n\n* High level project skills (coding, analysing, testing…)\n* Comparatively low costs.\n* Dedicated development teams.\n* Quality products.\n* Condensed timescales.\n\nHowever, in order to reap these benefits, the right outsourcing partner is required and if you’re aiming for the best possible product, developed with the least possible pain, flexible collaboration is the way forward and an agile approach to digital product development (such as scrum) is the best indicator of that flexibility.\n\n"}],"job":null,"photo":null,"slug":null,"cover":"Software_development_outsourcing.jpg","lead":"Maybe you’ve heard the phrase, “**If you want something done right, do it yourself**.” Maybe you agree with it. But in software development, as in so many things, it’s rarely true. If you’re a company looking to develop new digital products – web apps, mobile apps, even a web platform – **expert support is essential**. And unless you already have hot-shot developers on your payroll, **trusted software development outsourcing company** is likely to be at the top of your option list. The challenge is in finding the right partner to work with.","templateKey":"article-page","specialArticle":false,"isNewWork":null,"isNewNormal":null,"service":null,"settings":{"date":"2019-10-29T09:20:57.079Z","slug":"software-development-outsourcing-everything-you-should-know","type":"blog","slugType":null,"category":"Strategy","additionalCategories":["Digital Product"],"url":null},"author":"Adam Surdy","authorAdditional":null,"box":{"content":{"title":"Software Development Outsourcing - everything you should know","tileDescription":"Maybe you’ve heard the phrase, “If you want something done right, do it yourself.” Maybe you agree with it. But in software development, as in so many things, it’s rarely true. If you’re a company looking to develop new digital products – web apps, mobile apps, even a web platform – you need expertise. And unless you have already hot-shot developers on your payroll, outsourcing to an external software development company is likely to be at the top of your option list. The challenge is in finding the right partner to work with.","coverImage":"Software_development_outsourcing.jpg","tags":null},"coverImage":null,"settings":null,"type":"BLOG"}},"id":"fc50d889-3798-5091-a355-31615a9b9430"}},{"node":{"excerpt":"","fields":{"slug":"/blog/choosing-digital-product-development-partner-political-and-economic-issues/"},"frontmatter":{"title":"Choosing a digital product development partner - the political and economic issues","order":null,"content":[{"body":"And no wonder as, very often, there is little difference in quality and customer service, and the quality/price ratio offers considerable financial benefits.\n\nWe live in a global village and it has long been accepted that contracting out digital product development work is an effective method to enable companies to acquire competence and generate significant profit. **Put simply, in-house teams are not a competitive advantage anymore.**\n\nAs IT specialists become ever more skilled due to high competition and simpler access to knowledge, the question arises: **why should a client from France, the US, or even the UAE choose Poland if similar service quality and lower prices are easily available elsewhere?**\n\nObviously, for companies looking for financial optimization only, the choice is simple; yet for those who consciously manage their product and business, not so much. What follows is the perspective of a Product Owner, the person responsible for the product development vision…\n\n\n\n## The political and economic situation\n\nIt is clear that the political and economic situation of the potential partner’s country affects your digital product. **Your team needs to feel safe and secure and work in a place where peace and financial stability are guaranteed**.\n\nImagine your team being unable to get to work or struggling with insufficient food supplies. Building a product in this type of environment is always risky and you must remember that most of your know-how is located where your remote team is located.\n\n## Energy security\n\nJust imagine a situation where **you cannot get in touch with your development team** and the release of an important functionality cannot go ahead on time **because of… a power cut?**\n\nThis may sound like something from the 1970s, but energy security is still a problem in some regions of the world. In our industry, electricity is the basis of anything we do: it must be reliable because when delivering a product, we cannot afford downtime, communication problems, or any lack of support at crucial moments.\n\n\n\n## Information security\n\nEvery couple of weeks, you can read news online about cyber-attacks directed at companies and institutions around the world. Unfortunately, such incidents are part of modern life and the reality is that some countries are more at risk than others. **Remember that your system and its sensitive user data need to be safe.**\n\n**Saving a few dollars when selecting a provider can eventually result in greater losses,** both in terms of your public image and your finances.\n\nOf course, no place on earth is actually 100% safe in this respect but you should still look to ensure a decent level of security to protect your data from cyber-attacks.\n\n## Easy direct contact\n\nThe most efficient collaboration is when there is no division between the provider and the client: we all form one team working on product development. **As Poland is an EU member and belongs to the Schengen Area, there are no barriers preventing European clients from visiting their partners in Poland and vice versa**. It is also much easier to visit to and from a country outside the EU if it has a signed international contract allowing citizens to enter the territory. Why is this so significant?\n\n![Communication is everything - also while working on digital product](/img/02262-_tst1290-2x.jpg \"Communication is everything - also while working on digital product\")\n\nTo create a successful product, the team must be reliable, well-integrated, and committed. Nothing builds trust better than a direct meeting. When deciding on a team to collaborate with, make sure you’ll be able to shake the hand of the developer who is going to provide your users with a valuable product.\n\n## Macroeconomics matter as well\n\nThe standard of living in most countries offering low prices is lower than in Poland or Western Europe, so young talented specialists often decide to work abroad. **Since the European market opened up to foreign employees, the best IT specialists can now be found in Poland** and other European companies.\n\nThink of the risk connected with the fact that if your team is located in a distant country, it can break up due to economic migration, and you will lose the technological know-how related to your product along with the team members.\n\n\n\n## While you were sleeping\n\n**Take time zones into consideration.** Sometimes even one hour’s difference between you and your team can be significant. If you’re planning to be regularly in touch with your developers, take notice of when they get up in the morning and go to bed in the evening. Especially at the beginning of your cooperation, intensive contact while working together on the product vision is just indispensable.\n\n## Summary\n\n**Don’t forget that product development is not merely about cost**. Of course, specialists all over the world are becoming equally skilled and when you read reviews of companies from various parts of the world on [Clutch.co](https://clutch.co/profile/boldare), equivalent quality at a more attractive price can be tempting.\n\nHowever, if you decide to collaborate with a digital product design and development company operating in a country whose political and economic situation is unstable, you must accept the risks and problems described above.\n\nThey will certainly have an impact on your product and business. **You will pay less but risk more – keep that in mind.**\n\n"}],"job":null,"photo":null,"slug":null,"cover":"img/video-call-at-conference-room.jpg","lead":"Until recently, Poland was the global leader for [external software development services](https://www.boldare.com/blog/software-development-outsourcing-everything-you-should-know/), 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.","templateKey":"article-page","specialArticle":false,"isNewWork":null,"isNewNormal":null,"service":null,"settings":{"date":"2019-02-01T08:23:28.926Z","slug":"choosing-digital-product-development-partner-political-and-economic-issues","type":"blog","slugType":null,"category":"Strategy","additionalCategories":["Digital Product"],"url":null},"author":"Artur Belka","authorAdditional":null,"box":{"content":{"title":"Choosing a development partner - the political and economic issues","tileDescription":"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.","coverImage":"img/video-call-at-conference-room.jpg","tags":null},"coverImage":null,"settings":null,"type":"BLOG"}},"id":"5df42308-319e-5e86-b1df-42dcad8f925d"}},{"node":{"excerpt":"","fields":{"slug":"/blog/how-we-do-digital-products-at-boldare-and-what-it-means-for-your-business/"},"frontmatter":{"title":"This is how Boldare Development Teams process addresses your business needs","order":null,"content":[{"body":"Our software development process is based on the Agile Manifesto and Scrum framework. But those are just tools which we use to ensure that our partners' business needs will be fulfilled. Based on our experience, we believe that an **agile approach** is the most efficient way to deliver real business value to our partners. And our whole development process is designed to make it happen. So, how exactly do we do software at Boldare?\n\n## Our process\n\n### Product development kick-off\n\nBefore we start development, we go through a stage of collaboration and product kick-off. This is a series of events involving the client/partner and the whole team, led and facilitated by our Scrum Master. These include:\n\n* Meet the team\n* Discover the product\n* Plan a release\n\nDuring this phase, we all meet, discuss, and exchange information, but we are also looking for ideas, solutions, and, as a result, we create a Product Backlog and plan for the first release. To accomplish this, we use various techniques, which include:\n\n* [Event storming](https://www.boldare.com/blog/event-storming-guide/),\n* [Impact mapping](https://www.boldare.com/blog/build-product-that-make-impact/),\n* User story mapping,\n* Planning poker,\n* [Design thinking](https://www.boldare.com/blog/what-is-design-thinking/).\n\nWe follow our checklists to make sure we cover all relevant topics.\n\n### Delivering product increment in 2 weeks\n\nWe follow the Scrum Guide (as defined by scrum.org) to organize our development. We work in 2-week sprints, delivering product increments and collaborating creatively with each other.\n\nEvery sprint includes:\n\n* Sprint Planning (Development Team, Product Owner, Scrum Master)\n* Daily Meeting (Development Team, Scrum Master)\n* Sprint Review (Development Team, Product Owner, Scrum Master)\n* Sprint Retrospective (Development Team, Product Owner, Scrum Master)\n* Project management\n\nProject management in Boldare relies on a Scrum Team, including the Product Owner, Scrum Master, and [Development Team](https://www.boldare.com/services/development-teams/). These three roles, along with well-defined processes and responsibilities, cover our project management.\n\n[\\>>> A step by step guide to Event Storming – our experience](https://www.boldare.com/blog/event-storming-guide/)\n\n### Budget, scope and change management\n\nWe deliver software using Scrum principles, which means changes are natural and can be introduced to the Product Backlog at any time, and then reflected in the Sprint Backlogs.\n\n**What do development scope and budget management look like in our process?**\n\n* The Development Team and Scrum Master are accountable for recommendations or decisions on how to approach the product development process, collaboration and feature/story solutions to find the best fit between development efficiency, product quality, and the client’s (Product Owner's) budget expectations/limits.\n* The Development Team is responsible for continuous estimation of Product Backlog items and tracking the work to ensure the most accurate information about the actual speed of delivery.\n* The Product Owner is responsible for (non-technical) backlog decisions: scope (epics and stories), priorities (Product Backlog ordering), and formulating the most important scope to deliver in the current sprint and release.\n* The Scrum Master and the Development Team are responsible for maintaining predicted delivery dates for releases (for example: when an MVP can be released), as defined by the Product Owner and estimated by the Development Team.\n* By continually knowing the predicted delivery dates, scope, and Development Team size & structure, we can estimate budget for the release.\n\nThe above process is repeatedly iterated, with all parties involved, and is actually the budget and scope management of our software development process, giving the Product Owner (and other product stakeholders) more precise control and predictability than in any waterfall process, or in a top-down controlled environment.\n\n### Risk management\n\nFirst identification of product development risk is performed before the product development starts, at the product discovery workshops. We organize a meeting with product stakeholders to identify and plan a response to risks.\n\nDuring product development, risk management sessions are performed every iteration and are included in Scrum meetings. By generating frequent feedback from the team (including the QA roles), the Product Owner can react quickly and reduce problems before they really appear.\n\nEvery time a risk is identified we communicate it to product Stakeholders, including possible consequences, proposed solutions or actions to address the risk item.\n\n### Reporting\n\nAfter each sprint, the Product Owner and other product development stakeholders receive a summary of the sprint, which includes a summary of delivered Product Backlog items, a sprint burndown chart, key decisions, identified risks and actions needed.\n\n## Our standards\n\n### Our coding standards\n\nOur teams always follow coding standards to provide consistent, easy to understand and maintain codebase. Depending on the technology, we chose the best standards. Continually running forward, we’re implementing the best new solutions for our products - using reliable frameworks, tools, and trends in technology.\n\n### Definition of Done\n\nEvery functionality or change in the code we deliver meets the criteria listed in our definition of done, which assures quality and consistency in our delivery.\n\nWhen starting a collaboration, we always agree what ‘done’ means. Our standard definition of done states, that a user story or bug from the Product Backlog is done when it is…\n\n\n\n### Peer code review\n\nWe have a code review process, which ensures every piece of code is reviewed and approved by at least one another experienced software developer. This approach, combined with continuous integration, automated tests, and other practices ensures the highest quality of the code and helps us to keep good programming practices in our software. This procedure is one of the most critical processes we practice, and we focus a lot of our attention on it.\n\n### Code metrics\n\nWe regularly check our code with automated tools to measure it against the crucial indicators of well-designed code: cyclomatic complexity, repeated code, test coverage, etc. We use tools like Sonar, Jenkins, Travis CI and our proprietary extensions. With these outcomes, we aim to improve our results by comparing data from reports and alleviating bottlenecks. Working with these tools allows us to achieve outstanding code coverage results.\n\n### Continuous integration\n\nWe use the Continuous Integration (CI) rule in our development practice. We merge the code frequently, which helps to avoid integration problems. We use leading platforms like Travis CI or Jenkins CI with a set of automatically generated quality reports of our code. This ensures us that only code which passes all the tests and quality meters will be delivered.\n\nWe use CI tools to schedule time-based and event-based automated test runs to regularly check for regression and provide immediate feedback to the team about actual code and quality status. These tools and our regular, scheduled, time-based regression tests help us to significantly improve our code quality and this is the first level of verification of code correctness."},{"body":"## Quality assurance\n\nDepending on the particular business needs of the client, we prepare an individual plan to assure the delivered software is of the best possible quality.\n\nTo provide the best quality of the software we follow a comprehensive process as below.\n\n### The scope of testing\n\nDepending on the product, we execute:\n\n* Unit tests - individual units of source code are tested to determine whether they are fit for use.\n* Functional tests - individual software modules are combined and tested as a group.\n* Smoke tests - initial testing to reveal basic application functionalities failures.\n* User interface tests - testing graphical user interface to design guidelines and mock-ups.\n* User experience tests - measuring the degree of application usability.\n* Regression tests - testing that verifies previous functionalities still work properly.\n* Security audits - verifying application regarding the maintenance of data security.\n* Performance tests - testing system performance, responsiveness, and stability under workload.\n* Manual acceptance testing - checking if the requirements of the specification are met.\n\n### Dedicated Quality Assurance Engineer\n\nMost of our teams contain Quality Assurance Engineer (QAE), who supports the team in test automation, delivering, maintaining and executing end-to-end regression tests, performing test scenarios, including acceptance and functional scenarios and executing tests strategies for future sprints. In many cases, it is crucial for the team to have such support to maintain best quality and stability of the product over time.\n\nOur QA Engineers have proven experience and certified knowledge and take an active part in our quality assurance process. They provide immediate feedback regarding quality, giving the team enough time to react if any quality issues arise. Our QA Engineers not only produce automated tests but also work closely with all product stakeholders to assure all needs have been discovered and verified in code. It means analyzing business requirements and implementing the best solutions in line with them which is the fundament of creating high-quality applications.\n\n### Automated tests\n\nIn our work, we obey the following techniques and tools:\n\n* Behavior Driven Development (BDD) approach to clearly translate business language into working code. We write acceptance scenarios using Gherkin notation, so it’s clearly understandable both for engineers and business - this way of preparing scenarios increases our transparency.\n* Test Driven Development (TDD) approach in coding, for faster and easier detection of bugs in the initial phase of software development.\n* Automation tools and frameworks to write functional tests, such as Selenium WebDriver, Protractor, Jasmine, Selenide, Appium, Sikuli and others, depending on product specification and target devices.\n* To deliver the best matched and effective tests, we’re preparing test suites covering user stories from product backlog and other scenarios.\n\n## The excellence and quality\n\nThe process described above is the result of several years of experience, as well as our approach to the dev teams which is based on long-term relations and trust between all the people involved. It helps us create valuable software products for our clients, no matter if it is a long-term collaboration or MVP.\n\nNevertheless, at Boldare we put people and the relations between them before the process. That is why we always create software in collaboration with our partners. Software, which reflects client's business needs and domain. Which helps our partners achieve their goals.\n\nAnd this is exactly what Agile means for us."}],"job":null,"photo":null,"slug":null,"cover":"/img/open-space.jpg","lead":"Boldare's approach to digital [product design and development](https://www.boldare.com/services/product-design-and-development/) is always focused on the client’s business needs. Over the last 20 years, we have established and perfected a process designed to fully meet our partners' requirements. It's deeply immersed in the **agile software development philosophy** and concentrates on delivering a **working increment at a fast pace**.","templateKey":"article-page","specialArticle":false,"isNewWork":null,"isNewNormal":null,"service":null,"settings":{"date":"2018-06-05T09:09:17.000Z","slug":"agile-process-for-digital-product-development","type":"blog","slugType":null,"category":"How to","additionalCategories":["Agile"],"url":null},"author":"Kamil Mizera","authorAdditional":null,"box":{"content":{"title":"This is how Boldare Development Teams process addresses your business needs","tileDescription":"Boldare Development Teams approach to digital product development is focused on the client’s business needs. Over the last 14 years, we have established and perfected a process that it’s deeply immersed in the agile software development philosophy and concentrates on delivering a working increment at a fast pace. So, how exactly do we do software at Boldare?","coverImage":"/img/open-space.jpg","tags":null},"coverImage":null,"settings":null,"type":null}},"id":"31250d56-d30d-516c-a1e6-eddf4a60ad16"}},{"node":{"excerpt":"","fields":{"slug":"/blog/when-two-become-one-the-story-of-boldare/"},"frontmatter":{"title":"When two become one. The story of Boldare","order":null,"content":[{"body":"Boldare is the result of a natural joining of two sister companies: **XSolve** and **Chilid**. Boldare is a way to channel the skills and aspirations of people working in both companies into one. To give them a new framework for personal development and space for even more agile thinking and working. And to offer something different to the market: a company which creates digital products not for the clients, but with clients to meet the real needs of end users. A truly forward-looking digital product development company.\n\n## The roots of Boldare\n\nBoldare is the natural evolution of XSolve and Chilid. \n\nXSolve, established in 2004 by **Piotr Majchrzak**, is focused on software development and long-term collaborations. The company offers agile-thinking, scrum development teams dedicated to working with customers side by side to help them solve their business problems. The company has been listed among [Global PHP Leaders](https://clutch.co/press-releases/103-web-software-development-companies-clutch-global-leaders-2017) on Clutch and as the one of the **fastest-growing** private companies in Europe, [according to Inc. 5000](https://xsolve.software/blog/xsolve-on-the-inc-5000-list-our-journey-in-numbers/).\n\nOn the other hand, Chilid was established in 2010 by **Anna Zarudzka** as a response to different customers needs. Chilid, is a design-driven company, focusing on front-end and rapid development. Chilid mixes product vision, design, software development and agile to deliver digital products, mostly in the form of MVPs. Chilid has [nine Awwwards](https://www.awwwards.com/Boldare/), CSS REEL winner, German Web Award and Indigo Design Award.\n\nBoth companies were meeting different market needs yet working under one roof and cooperating on a regular basis. XSolve and Chilid have been partners on more than **100 products** for clients such as **BlaBlaCar**, **Corel, Agnitio**, PSO, Netrounds, Showbiz Models, Viners, Tauron, Oneida and many more. In time, as the market and customer requirements evolved, the distinction between the two companies began to vanish.\n\n It was time to go one step further."},{"body":"## The reasons to be Bold(are)\n\nBoldare is not a simple consolidation of two companies but a creative approach to their business domains resulting in a new organization and offer. To understand Boldare better, I asked Anna Zarudzka, the CEO of Chilid, the most simple question of all: why?\n\nShe told me there are three core reasons for bringing Boldare to life, which are:\n\n**People**\n\n\"The reason we decided to merge are people. Piotr and I noticed that our people were getting strangled by schemas, that they don't have enough space to breathe. The people working in XSolve and Chilid have slightly different mindsets. Boldare is a way to preserve these mindsets, combine them and put them to use in the service of digital product development. And the one of the tools to achieve that is holacracy. Holacracy, which we introduced in both companies less than a year ago, gives us a unique chance to go with this merger, it catalyzes it. It helps us to preserve the autonomy of our teams and yet keep the focus on a mutual goal. Thanks to holacracy we keep the focus on two core aspects of product development but we are now one organism. Without holacracy, we wouldn't have a proper tool for the merger which would make the whole process much more difficult. Happily ‘Hola’ proved to be useful and helped us to become Boldare.\"\n\n**Market**\n\n\"The dualism of Xsolve and Chilid resulted from market needs. 8-10 years ago the market wasn't ready for the company where product design and software development are under one roof. Clients were seeking coders in one place and were coming for designers somewhere else. But in the last few years, client needs has been evolving. They're looking for a trusted partner with experience who will assist and guide them through a journey of digital transformation; who will provide a comprehensive offer covering the full digital product development cycle; who won’t force a choice between scalable software or a user-centered interface. Moreover, companies need a partner with whom they can consult on their business needs, and what is more, they expect to find all of this in one place. We want to build this place for them.\"\n\n**Experience**\n\n\"For the last decade, Xsolve and Chilid have been working side by side but, except for joint projects, for different types of clients with different needs. During this time both companies built a level of expertise in their domains which meets the client's high standards regarding quality and professionalism. Our experience gained from working on more than 250 products for 89 clients is one of the reasons why we decided to merge both companies. We know that we are prepared to offer the market something different and we are doing that with the full awareness that we can provide the same high quality in Boldare, as we did in XSolve and Chilid.\"\n\n## The story of Boldare\n\nSo, what is Boldare? It is a fusion of two companies and two mindsets. It is experience and know-how accumulated, mixed, transformed and aimed at developing digital products and design-driven software. It is an agile and design-thinking, lean-building, scrum-managing work environment cemented by its unique cultural fit. But this is not a simple case of 1+1=2. It never has been and never will be.\n\n**Anna Zarudzka, the CEO of Chilid:**\n\n_\"Boldare has been established to create products that users would actually use. Products which will build relationships and habits. In this approach, the software is divided into what is needed and what is unnecessary. We want to develop software which is needed, which will shape the future. We want to provide our customers with human-centered products that really meet their business needs. We want to offer them a digital transformation. This requires a comprehensive verification of those business needs. Technology is no longer isolated from humanism. It is technology and humanism together.\"_\n\n**Piotr Majchrzak, the CEO of XSolve:**\n\n_\"With 14 years of experience and having built 250 products built we recognize that in today's world, software development that is not a core activity too often is nothing more than local optimization, and doesn’t empower clients to become global leaders. Today, a successful company needs a super-agile, highly competent design and development team. But that alone is not enough. It’s also essential to have an environment and culture of user-centred innovation to produce future-proof, secure, needed and significant web apps, mobile apps, and enterprise software That constitutes a fundamental paradigm shift of working with an external development company embedded into your organization like an in-house development department. Only in this way can modern companies be certain of executing their vision rapidly, creating habit-building products that are used regularly, and responding quickly to an ever-changing business environment, fulfilling company business goals with minimum waste. Boldare is a response to these changes and new market needs. We offer human-centered digital products and guidance for companies who want to catalyze their innovation or kick start their digital transformation.\"_\n\n**This is Boldare.**"}],"job":null,"photo":null,"slug":null,"cover":"/img/anna-zarudzka-and-piotr-majchrzak.jpg","lead":"This story is not about merging companies. This story is about people. People who for the last 16 years were building exciting **digital products**. This story is about how software development meets design to create something new yet valuable for end users. 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