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Common Risks in Agile Projects and How to Prevent Them

The majority of outsourcing projects are developed within the scope of methodology that are often called as “flexible” (Agile). Companies that are involved in outsourcing, often identify themselves as “Agile-oriented".

Dzmitry Garbar • 9 min read

These 7 Steps Will Help Prepare Your Software for GDPR

All the companies providing goods or services for the EU citizens will have to adhere to the new data protection rules or face fines of up to 4% annual global turnover or roughly $24.5M. As the GDPR comes into force it will affect businesses all over the world, including 52% of American firms. Established companies have already released statements claiming to have prepared for the new privacy rules. But Gartner predicts that only half of the businesses will succeed. We have prepared a list to help you be among them.

Dzmitry Garbar • 8 min read

Functions of Transportation Management System in Logistics

The robust Transportation Management System (TMS) with rich API integrations automates the major freight management workflows by carrying out the following 7 functions.

Dzmitry Garbar • 3 min read

How To Hire A Software Developer: Complete Guide

How to find a dedicated developer for an app? If you are planning or doing full-time outsourcing staff and from time to time your software development outsourcing vendor augments your team, then this article is worth reading to learn what actions to take for improvement team speed enlargement, the personnel quality, and reduction of effort and time.

Alexander Kom • 8 min read

Hire Dedicated Development Team To Cut Costs by more than 40%

How to Hire a Dedicated Development Team

Outsourcing software development services saves businesses up to 70% of the budget, especially if you hire a high qualified offshore dedicated development team. Even such giants as Alibaba, Google, Skype, and WhatsApp use it. Discover when to choose a dedicated team model and how to make such a collaboration well-organized and budget-saving.

Alexander Kom • 14 min read

How Much Does a Custom Software Development Cost

Estimating the cost of custom software development with offshore software development companies can seem like a complex puzzle. At Belitsoft, we've honed a method that demystifies this process. Our approach is human-centric, eliminating the need for complex calculations, and is grounded in industry best practices. In this article, we'll guide you through our step-by-step journey and the principles that ensure accurate cost estimates.

Dzmitry Garbar • 4 min read

Software Development Company vs Freelance Software Developers

Startup founders, small business owners, managers in medium business and even corporate representatives are trying to adapt to the new reality of the so-called gig economy regularly contracting developers outside an organization to complete certain jobs. Freelance software developers are in demand. Websites like Toptal, Upwork, or Freelancer where you can outsource programmers and engineers generate hundreds of millions dollars in revenue for their founders. This in itself proves that freelancers can add value to businesses. Otherwise the freelance market would not be so strong. But is there only good news?

Alexander Kom • 4 min read

MVP software development: best practices

Do you know that without an MVP you risk losing $50,000 creating the wrong product? That’s what the SaaS startup Groove went through. Lowering risks, saving money, time, and resources are the key reasons why you cannot ignore MVP development. Uber, Zappos, Facebook, Spotify, Instagram, Snapchat, Airbnb, Dropbox were developed as MVPs first. Keep reading to learn about common mistakes in MVP development and see real-life best practices.

Dzmitry Garbar • 9 min read

Cloud ERP Development and Cloud ERP Customization

Belitsoft previously relied on on-premise servers, which I wouldn't entirely consider a mistake. To be honest, the experience of using them was quite enlightening, albeit frustrating. Now, we mostly prefer to utilize cloud services.

Dzmitry Garbar • 7 min read

Top Software Developers Shared How They Came Up With Profitable SaaS Ideas

As one of the experienced SaaS development companies, we know that the way to get profitable startup idea is not to try to think of startup ideas (including SaaS development). It's to look for problems, preferably problems you have yourself. In fact, for many entrepreneurs, successful business ideas start out as solutions designed to address a challenge they face personally. Solving the problem that frustrates you may be one of the best ways of finding an idea for your startup. Look at these tech entrepreneurs who turned their problem into success.

Dzmitry Garbar • 16 min read

SRS document Helps to Protect IT Projects From Failure

Software Requirements Specification Document (SRS) gives business owners a clear vision of how much does it cost to develop their custom software product (web, mobile or desktop one). Who should write a software requirement specification? A business analyst. Belitsoft as a business analysis services company can help you with writing an SRS. Get a free quote or check out how to start custom software development without creating an SRS!

Timur Zaripov • 3 min read

How to Protect Intellectual Property / Confidential Information

If outsourcing vendor cannot be trusted to protect trade secrets, then the risks of an outsourcing custom software development may outweigh its potential benefits. Hence, it is critical to review the intellectual property policy of the potential supplier.

Vladimir Tursin • 3 min read

Custom Software Testing: How We Use the Pareto Principle

Belitsoft software testing company, operating globally since 2004, provides software product testing and quality assurance services. Our clients want to know whether we use available QA resources in the most efficient way. We follow two simple rules: "use the Pareto principle" and "escape the Murphy’s law" to reduce costs and the delivery time of a custom developed software without compromising on quality.

Dzmitry Garbar • 4 min read

Region-specific Design

It’s surprising how the same UI/UX design pattern may affect users of a different culture in a way we never expect. Even in an age of internationalization, people attach great importance to their customs and cultural heritage and want businesses to respect them too. The article covers dimensions that are shaped by one’s cultural background and shows how we can adapt app & web designs for a natural look and feel in a particular region.

Dmitry Kravtsov • 6 min read

Custom SRS document (International Standard)

Timur Zaripov • 10 min read

Ideation in Startups: how Successful Entrepreneurs Draw Inspiration

You want to grow your business. Just one small thing. You need a game-changing idea to push your enterprise forward. We propose 5 solutions to get the juices flowing. Read on to find out where the founders of some successful businesses get their ideas.

Dzmitry Garbar • 7 min read

Project Management Approach in Belitsoft

The project management approach of Belitsoft Company aims at solving customers’ tasks in the fastest and most transparent manner while simultaneously improving the project by being adaptable due to the use of flexible techniques, as well as a pro-active position.

Dmitry Baraishuk • 3 min read

Develop High-Quality And Inexpensive Software Quickly?

Software Development Cost Analysis

If you live in the US or Europe and look for a better contractor to develop custom software quickly and inexpensively, then initially you turn to local resources. Sometimes these expenses can be too high for you, because local costs for programmers' services in the US and Europe deeply differ from other countries. That’s why many customers spend too much time while searching for price-quality relationship.

Vladimir Tursin • 3 min read

Business Analyst Role & Definition

A Business Analyst is one of the most important team members on both Waterfall and Agile projects. Software developers need structured, detailed, small, feasible, testable, and clear tasks. A Business Analyst writes requirements for developers in a way they actually need them.

Dzmitry Garbar • 3 min read

Project Manager Role & Definition

Project Manager - is an expert who is responsible for project management: designing and prioritization, tasks scheduling, control, communication and rapid problem solving. It's a non-technical profession, but majority of people are former developers, quality testers or from customer service department.

Dzmitry Garbar • 3 min read

Product Manager Role & Definition

Product management - is one of those professions, that is difficult to describe and give a clear definition (it refers to any organization), partly because in each company people are doing this work in a different way. Not long ago, I discussed with my friends: "who is a product manager?" Some of them have recently started to work in this field, others have already achieved some success in this area.

Dzmitry Garbar • 4 min read

What Is Scrum Methodology?

In 2015 I would like to continue my analysis on project management. Previously, I touched upon the question of comparison of software development methodologies. Today, we briefly examine Scrum methodology, and have a look at typical mistakes that can lead to problems. This post does not claim to be exhaustive, it is a survey and is addressed to those, who are partially acquainted with it (for example, work in the modified Scrum) or not familiar with the methodology.

Dmitry Baraishuk • 4 min read

When to Use Fixed Price Model for Software Development

Every project starts with the request for proposal or the project estimate. The inquirer needs to know price, duration of the project and tries to find out the level of service quality. Request is usually sent to more than one software development company to get a collection of offers to choose the best one

Dzmitry Garbar • 3 min read

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