See how offshore leverage and risk pricing have moved in application outsourcing
For sourcing and delivery leads renegotiating application development, maintenance and testing contracts.
- Engagement type
- Team Pod
- Experts
- 2 experts
- Hours
- ~30
- Duration
- 2 weeks
What the client needed
A firm needed the outsourcing trends in application development: how offshore leverage has changed across agile development, standard development, maintenance and support, and testing; how shoring shifts by region, industry, service line and tech stack and what drives it; and how recent macro-economic turbulence changed the risk and contingency providers price in.
The brief
The questions on the table
As the client wrote them, lightly shortened. Client and respondents are not named.
- Q1
How has offshore leverage changed across agile development, standard development, maintenance and support, and testing?
- Q2
How does shoring shift by region, industry, service line and tech stack, and what drives it?
- Q3
How has macro-economic turbulence changed the risk and contingency providers factor in?
The hours
What the work involved
- 01
Consultation guide
Three themes, with the client’s own service lines and regions as the frame.
- 02
Expert consults
A former global delivery head for IT and engineering services at a top-tier provider, and a technology architect who has delivered across three providers.
- 03
Synthesis
Leverage by service line, the shoring drivers, and the risk-pricing change, with the two views reconciled.
Deliverables
What the client received
- Offshore leverage by service lineWith the change over time.
- Shoring driversBy region, industry, service line, tech stack.
- Risk and contingency noteWhat providers now price in, and why.
- Consultation notesDe-identified.
The terms
What an engagement like this costs
You buy hours in blocks and can change the expert at the end of any block, at no extra cost. Longer projects run in stages: pause after a block, pick up the next stage when you are ready.
- Rate band
- $65–$250 /hr
- Senior specialists can be up to $500
- Hour blocks
- 1 · 2 · 5 · 10 · 20 · 50 · custom
- This engagement
- Team Pod · ~30 hours · 2 weeks
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Describe what you needFor example: “We are renewing a $20M application-maintenance contract and need current offshore-leverage and risk-pricing norms.”
We aim to come back with matched experts within 24 to 72 hours.