The full text is 3935 words, detailing the only four development models on the market.
With the development of the Internet, "Internet+" is available in all walks of life, development needs are emerging in endlessly, and there are more and more development methods, from template-based batch development, to outsourcing team development, to self-built development team development, and finally to With the rise of crowdsourcing in recent years, each method has its own advantages and disadvantages.
In this article, I will introduce in detail the advantages and disadvantages of various development methods, including their applicable objects and guides to avoid pits:
1. Template-based batch development
I believe that when you search for website development, applet or APP development on Taobao, you have seen such businesses. Their development prices are extremely low, often one-tenth or even less than normal development.
Generally, a few hundred dollars can be used to complete a website, a few thousand dollars can be used to complete a small program, and a few thousand dollars can be used to complete an APP.
This mode uses the same program framework, or "template", to realize the so-called "customized development" by dragging some functional components in the background, thereby saving software costs and reducing development prices.
This is a broad sense of development.
The advantages of this model are obvious:
1. Affordable
2. Function can be used
You only need to spend 10% of the money to achieve 90% of the functionality.
The disadvantages are also obvious:
1. Unable to customize individual needs, many of your ideas cannot be realized.
2. Poor flexibility, once a problem occurs, it is difficult to respond immediately.
Compared with your competitors, all your advantages lie in the unrealized 10%. If you are a technology company and develop a project to do business with this as the core, the result of choosing this approach is to die in battle.
Therefore, this method applies to:
1. Individual demand side.
Like the owner of a restaurant, I just make a small program to give customers some takeaways, and do my own customer retention and membership system. It doesn't matter whether the software has features or not, it's enough for my dishes to have features.
2. The product is just the icing on the cake rather than the enterprise that gives charcoal in the snow.
For example, you are in the clothing industry and you want to develop an internal scheduling system to improve the efficiency of goods and capital turnover. This is completely fine.
3. The initial exploration of new businesses by companies with stable businesses, or the start-up companies to test the waters of new industries.
When you are new to a new business or industry, you need to make contact with the industry first, or even try it first to see if you can do it. You can choose this low-cost trial and error method.
2. Outsourcing team development package
Outsourcing team development means that a company outsources part or all of its software development needs to an external professional service provider. To put it bluntly, it is to throw the product you want to develop to a company whose core business is development, and let them develop it for you.
And outsourcing companies generally have three characteristics: high professional level, low relative cost, and short development cycle.
After all, the emergence of outsourcing companies is itself "professional people do professional things." For platforms with a little history, the development quality is guaranteed. Compared with setting up a team by yourself, the initial cost is relatively low, and it saves the time of team formation and running-in, which can effectively reduce the development cycle.
Because most companies are not as wealthy as BAT, they want to save costs and improve efficiency, and they cannot afford a series of continuous expenses brought by the technical team.
After all, for most companies, the formation and maintenance of the technical team is a very small expense——
Take Hangzhou as an example. The front-end salary is generally above 10K, and the back-end development is basically above 15K. We calculate according to the low configuration. A minimum development team needs to have a UI design, a front-end, 2 back-ends, and one ios, an Android, we don’t count testing and operation and maintenance. The technical director also assumes that it is a technology investment and a very low salary. With only these six people, the company’s overall cost of the development team is guaranteed to be 80,000+. Months.
This does not count the product department, and does not include a series of other expenses such as venues.
From demand to product formation, we assume that it will be online in three months and the development cost is close to 300,000. However, you still need to pay the salary of the development team after this, and it is impossible for you to open the entire development team and the system is online. The subsequent maintenance cost is also a considerable expense. Provide a piece of data for reference, a relatively regular development team, in first-tier cities, the cost of making an app is generally 1 million as a base.
If you leave it to an outsourcing company, you can cut this cost in half.
Most importantly, it can reduce trial and error costs for the enterprise. If this APP fails, no more iterative requirements are submitted, and iterative payment is enough. If you form a team yourself, you have to continue to bear the team expenses, or dissolve the team to pay liquidated damages.
Therefore, companies that meet the following characteristics are suitable for choosing an outsourcing company:
1. Develop the product for the first time, try the water.
2. The company's financial strength is not strong, and some leeway is needed.
3. The product is of medium difficulty and medium scale, and does not require a dedicated team to maintain and update.
I would like to remind everyone here that you must find those development teams that are larger in the field and have better evaluations, otherwise it is very likely that the development needs will not be met in the end:
Didi Dache’s products were originally made by outsourcing software companies. Cheng Wei felt that it would be too late to recruit the team in two months to complete the product. The company he found asked for 150,000 yuan, but he cut it down to 90,000 yuan. He vowed to him that all functions would be realized. Cheng Wei kept a mind-set, pay 30% first, pay 50% halfway through, and then pay 20% after acceptance. As a result, the 20% was never paid. Later, Cheng Wei realized that his initial product was made by a technical secondary school teacher with a few students.
When he got the software, he went to the Transportation Committee to demonstrate the Didi taxi, called 10 times, and could ring 6 or 7 times. When it was not ringing, everyone stared at the phone that should ring and was silent for 10 seconds. Cheng Wei turned off the topic awkwardly. He learned well, and when he showed it to others for the second time, he brought two mobile phones, and took out whichever one rang.
While software outsourcing, he also recruited engineers. When the engineer looked at the code, he said that the level was too bad and basically useless.
3. Self-built development team development
Although outsourcing can save companies a lot of costs, there are some things that outsourcing companies cannot do.
Although there are some shortcomings in setting up a team by yourself, for example:
Key technical talents are hard to find
Team maintenance costs are high
It takes two to three months time cost
But there are three advantages:
Development is more flexible.
Long-term cost is low.
Quick response to questions.
Because you are your own team, you can change your needs at any time, and you can change whatever you want as long as it is reasonable. But the outsourcing team will not work. Once the requirements are set, the subsequent changes generally require another payment.
Moreover, if you form your own team, you can respond quickly to problems. If a bug occurs, you can change it immediately. However, the outsourcing company may cause the company to lose if it is not timely modified due to other projects at hand.
Finally, although the short-term cost of setting up a development team is high, as long as the product develops steadily, the long-term amortized cost is still lower than that of the outsourcing company, whether it is time cost or capital cost.
Therefore, companies that meet the following characteristics are suitable to form their own teams to develop products:
The company is well-funded and can afford the initial cost of team formation without putting pressure on operations.
Enterprises really need this APP as the core of their business, not as one of the channels.
Enterprise apps need to respond quickly, such as finance, information security and other fields, so as not to cause losses.
4. Software development crowdsourcing
With the rapid development of Internet outsourcing in recent years, a new model based on outsourcing, crowdsourcing, has gradually developed.
The so-called crowdsourcing refers to the practice of a company or organization outsourcing work tasks performed by employees in the past to non-specific (and usually large-scale) public volunteers in a free and voluntary manner.
The difference between it and outsourcing is that outsourcing is a company entrusted by a company to form a company, while crowdsourcing is a company that faces individuals in different areas. One is one-to-one and one is one-to-many.
The general approach is that after an enterprise releases its requirements through an outsourcing platform, it can select hundreds of thousands of individual developers on the platform, respond quickly, and form a temporary team with strong development capabilities and high development efficiency. Among them, there will be UI, front-end, Android, and all the positions you need for development, and they can be flexibly increased or decreased as your development needs are different each time.
The most important thing is to connect these people who have not cooperated before in a standardized, low-wear and cost-effective way through remote office and platform docking technical means.
The emergence of software crowdsourcing is a further upgrade of the traditional outsourcing industry through technical means, and a lot of work that was originally offline has been moved to the present, thereby saving a lot of material costs and giving benefits to developers and business users.
Crowdsourcing development takes into account many advantages of self-built technical team and software outsourcing development, such as:
1. Reduce team building time and material cost.
Remote office, without a series of expenses such as office leasing, water and electricity.
2. Development is more flexible.
Develop in stages to facilitate the discovery and resolution of problems.
3. Long-term maintenance costs are low.
Not all positions require continuous employment, such as UI design, after which the maintenance team can be controlled at an appropriate scale.
4. The team is highly professional.
You can choose the strongest partners from the platform, they are likely to be BAT in-service developers.
Therefore, companies that meet the following characteristics are suitable for developing products through crowdsourcing:
1. Startups in the Internet field
Crowdsourcing can not only ensure the reasonableness of the development cost in the early stage, but also ensure that the self-built team can be reasonably and smoothly transitioned in the later stage, because there will be no ignorance of the developer's ability.
2. Small and medium enterprises with limited budgets
Crowd-sourcing can ensure that every budget of yours is spent on the cutting edge, and it is more affordable than outsourcing and more efficient than self-built teams.
3. Companies that need human outsourcing or remote development
Generally, crowdsourcing will have human on-site and remote development services.
It is precisely the rise of remote office just mentioned that has gradually reduced the disadvantages of outsourcing, making it the first choice for most companies. So, let me finally talk about where to find reliable technology outsourcing.
Here is a detailed introduction to the platform of Programmer Inn:
Programmer's Inn is an Internet remote work center and programmer's agent. It hires BAT-level developers to develop products for companies. Responsive quickly, the project can be launched within 24 hours, and the development cost can be halved when the success rate is doubled.
At the same time, the Programmer Inn brings together outstanding Chinese programmers from all over the world to display their personal resumes, works, skills, and professional community influence, so that companies can find technical employees and even future technical partners.
There are three main advantages for companies to publish requirements in the programmer inn:
1. Funds are more secure
Outsourcing companies generally require payment in advance. Afterwards, if the development services fail to meet the requirements of the company, it is difficult for the company to apply for a refund and can only spend time with the outsourcing company, which is not in the interests of the company. The Programmer Inn adopts platform custody + phased settlement method to ensure that the development team completes the enterprise requirements on time and efficiently.
2. The programmer is better
There are currently 440,000 certified programmers on the Programmer Inn platform, all of whom are senior technicians with at least three years of development experience, including developers from major manufacturers such as BAT. And on the basis that the system recommends the developers with the highest matching degree for enterprise users to choose, you can also refer to the technical personnel recommended by the platform's one-to-one customer service personnel and have experience in cooperation. Ensure that enterprise users hire the best team at the most appropriate price.
3. Save time and labor cost on the demand side
The platform requires developers to upload daily development reports every day to save corporate inquiry and review time. At the same time, the one-to-one customer service staff of the programmer inn platform will continue to follow up, find and solve problems, and minimize time and labor costs for the company from a professional perspective.
Finally, no matter which development method you choose, here is a guide to avoiding pitfalls for you to read.
1. Don't choose a development method that is not suitable for your current situation in order to save money, otherwise you will spend more money to fill in the previous holes.
David of Didi Chuxing is an example.
2. If you don't know how to choose, choose the one with the highest evaluation first. If the evaluation is similar, choose the nearest one. Finally, choose the cheapest one.
The high evaluation guarantees the overall level, the distance is convenient for face-to-face interviews, and the cheapest is that the operation is not easy to save or save.
3. If you still don't know how to choose, then trust me and choose crowdsourcing.
The platform will not and cannot deceive you in terms of quality and price.