Outsourcing Mistakes: Selecting a Vendor (Background)

In this video, we’re gonna talk about the common mistakes when selecting your future software development outsourcing vendor when it comes to their backgrounds – the backgrounds of vendors and their founders and top executives.

One common mistake is when no one checks a vendor’s background. You are risking running into a vendor that has a bad history of relationships with their clients.

Our advice?

1. Research the vendor company.

• Identify any past issues
• Take issues to vendor
• Address them directly

2. Research the founder and executives

• Critical for smaller vendors
• Experience “Working in the trenches”
• Better culture
• Better processes
• Better quality

The point here is that people who know their industry and how the process of software development works, they will be able to instill a better culture, and they will be able to set up better processes.

Simple advice – just Google them. Just make sure it’s directly related to software development.