Do you also encounter many problems when conducting multi-project development and team management of multiple R&D suppliers (technical outsourcing management).
Project manager A: In the process of hiring an outsourced technical team in project development, I stepped on too many pitfalls and changed batch after batch of suppliers. The most distressing thing I encountered before was that our product has not yet been developed. The code and ideas were sold maliciously by the supplier, which caused us to spend a lot of time defending our rights. In the end, the project was unfinished.
Project Manager B: There is still a problem with the general contracting of the project to a supplier. As Party A, it is easy to be manipulated by the supplier. In terms of time, Delay is Delay, the function cannot be realized at any time, the budget is also spent in place, the process management is not in place, and the project results obtained are still not satisfactory.
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It can be seen that multi-project development is a common working mode in modern enterprises. For those enterprises that rely on a large number of suppliers (outsourcing teams), how to effectively manage project development and R&D supplier teams to ensure smooth projects Proceeding and high-quality delivery are especially important.
How should software R&D supplier team management be done? Regarding this issue, we will discuss it with you from four dimensions.
Four Considerations for Development Technology Outsourcing
1. Time and quality control
The technology supplier adopts remote development after winning the bid, and when the "milestone" is reached a few months later, it is discovered that the progress and quality of the project are not up to standard, and there are even major understanding deviations. The success or failure of the project depends entirely on the supplier's ability, and its management is very weak. The problem is especially prominent under multi-vendor and project clusters.
For this problem, the general solution for enterprises is to purchase a set of R&D project management tools or software to monitor the progress of the technology supplier team. Methods like this are indeed effective, but with the expansion of the project scale and the increase in the number of outsourcing teams, the pure project management tool has a single function, and it is gradually "incapable" to use.
Compared with simple project management tools, Xingyun’s innovative CloudOS one-stop development cloud platform adopts the "stage-based singing" model. The development cloud platform is owned by Party A, and multiple suppliers develop, test, deliver, and accept on the development cloud. . At the beginning, "10 senior engineers" were promised. Their development activities can be clearly seen on the platform, and the progress of the version in the process can be checked at any time without waiting for "milestones". The daily test pass rate is clearly visible based on the Kanban. Phased acceptance is also more convenient and well-documented.
2. Code and data security
A large number of developers of suppliers use their own notebooks for development. Code leaks due to computer theft or hacking, or code and data leaks caused by sending codes to the Internet for help, and even technical supplier personnel using Party A’s intellectual property codes for other projects... Various "code security" There are endless problems. Moreover, regarding the issue of code security, it is difficult to constrain the contract in black and white, because even if the code is leaked, it is difficult for Party A to find out.
Therefore, what we need is a two-pronged approach, with contractual constraints as the basis and instrumental constraints as the guarantee. For outsourcing project development based on CloudOS, the technology supplier logs in to the unified development account of the CloudOS development cloud, and then directly develops code on the Web. The code does not land, and the code, data, and documents are safely stored in Party A's data center. Unauthorized developers cannot copy the code to the outside, which protects the security of digital assets such as code to the greatest extent.
3. Supplier collaborative development efficiency
For the team development model of multiple technology suppliers, there is not much mutual connection between suppliers, and it is very common for similar functional modules to be developed repeatedly among different technology suppliers. And the databases and middleware used by different supplier teams are different... As a result, the operation and maintenance of a large number of different databases and middleware greatly increases the complexity for Party A, and causes waste and waste of repeated development. Risk of Security Breach.
In response to this problem, the CloudOS development cloud platform provides unified components that meet Party A's security and operation and maintenance standards through a unified "component store". Technology suppliers can only use standardized components during the development process, and need to integrate new business components developed by themselves. Put it on the component store, and reuse it for other projects under the authorization of Party A, so as to avoid the waste of repeated construction.
4. Suppliers adopt advanced technology
In the absence of rigid requirements for project construction, the technical level of the developers of technology suppliers determines the technological advancement of project construction. But it is possible and highly probable that they will adopt the old monolithic architecture, outdated development language, commercial non-Xinchuang database and middleware, etc. In this way, it will have a huge impact on the stability, scalability, sustainability and maintainability of the second-phase development of Party A's project in the future.
The CloudOS development cloud platform provides advanced "development templates" that meet Party A's requirements, changing project development from "composition questions" to "fill-in-the-blank questions". Together with the advanced components in the component store, the CloudOS development cloud The platform guides technology suppliers to develop projects with advanced technology, unified architecture, safety and efficiency. Because the digital assets are completely on the CloudOS cloud platform, in the second phase of development, the project can evolve smoothly regardless of whether it is still the original supplier.
Enterprise Cloud Native Digital Innovation Platform
CloudOS includes cloud-native application visual architecture design, online collaborative coding development, cloud-native-based API management and interface testing, multi-cloud delivery and application scheduling, grayscale release, pipeline, application operation and maintenance, service governance, multi-container cluster management, cloud edge Integrated business delivery and other capabilities. The goal is to improve the agility of the application architecture, build an agile and innovative application R&D environment for enterprises, realize the visualization and agility of application R&D, and standardize the technology platform, greatly accelerate the iterative speed of software development, and improve the flexibility and utilization of IT resources. Support the migration of traditional applications to the cloud, help enterprise customers accelerate the realization of business value, and assist traditional application R&D teams to efficiently complete cloud-native application innovation.
CloudOS generally includes four parts:
- Cloud Native Application Factory
Realize all-round support for cloud-native application research and development, integrate cloud-native DevOps capabilities, and provide application project management, architecture design, online development, online testing, multi-cloud deployment, visual operation and maintenance, test environment management, R&D Kanban, pipeline and other capabilities. Enterprise public capability components in the cloud-native application store can be used for application development.
- Cloud Native App Store
Realize the precipitation and management of enterprise cloud native assets, including enterprise public business capability components, message middleware, database middleware, etc. The enterprise public business capability components developed by the application factory can be put on the cloud native application store.
- Cloud Native Application Management
Realize the deployment of enterprise digital applications, business scheduling management, business operation and maintenance, and service governance capabilities. The K8S cluster/container platform realizes the operation support of digital applications, including automatic scaling, multiple copies, etc. This platform can be docked and integrated with other manufacturers' container platforms, or the open source K8S-based version provided by Xingyun.
- Connect with IaaS resources
This product has no special requirements for the IaaS resource layer, which can be public cloud IaaS resources or enterprise private cloud resources, and can be physical machines or virtual machines.
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Summarize
The development of outsourced projects will become more and more common for enterprises, and the management of the outsourced technical team is the key to the success of the project. In addition to clarifying project goals and requirements, selecting a suitable outsourcing team, and establishing a good communication mechanism and cooperative relationship, CloudOS can better manage the outsourcing technical team to ensure smooth progress and high-quality delivery of the project. During the project implementation process, the enterprise should also pay close attention to the individual working conditions of the technology supplier members, and make timely adjustments and coordination according to the progress of the project in order to achieve the success of the project.