Engagement Models
MLRS offers a set of different engagement models to provide you with the most convenient way of working on your project. You are welcome to either choose a model from the options mentioned below or suggest your own.
Our engagement models serve as a basis for future client-vendor relationships. It is a framework that your company chooses to manage MLRS to serves as a basis of our future collaboration between your company and MLRS. It gives your company the level of control, responsibility or flexibility to work with MLRS.
The selected model with all its legal and technological aspects, should be precisely specified and transparent for both - your organization and MLRS. Here’s our brief overview and discussion of the most popular models used in software engagement:
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Time & Material
A cost-effective model where the amount of money you spend corresponds to the amount of work delivered. The client and the vendor usually agree upon an hourly, daily or weekly rate for the allocated project resources. This engagement model is often preferred because it offers flexibility to change requirements on the fly, ability to balance project resources, and spread the workload.
Provided that Time & Material project is accompanied by the experienced and skilled project managers, quality is properly supervised. Progress and the deadlines observance are not neglected. There are good chances of getting the work done in-time and within the budget.
Time and Material engagement model lets clients play active role during the entire project development process. Alongside, it also helps them to keep pace with the emerging technologies. It is flexible, dynamic and is best suited for projects that are:
- Difficult to estimate in terms of specification, scope of work and implementation
- Complicated but hold high potential for growth in the better future
- Prone to modification during the development phases
It is often referred to as hourly based model as it asks one to pay a fixed amount for our services on hourly basis, which is settled at the time of contract signing. The engagement model also enables clients’ to incorporate changes in project requirements depending on various parameters. Prominent of these factors may include:
- Upcoming market trends
- Modification in team size
- Software/hardware requirements
Advantages
Our time and material engagement model assures you numerous advantages, such as:
- Apt for IT solutions that demand extensive research and development
- Easy to accommodate and adjust resources as per the evolving requirements
- Urges you to pay only for the work done
- Updated progress report about the project on regular basis
- Flexible engagement model to meet the specific client requirements
Dedicated Development Team
Offshore Development Centre (ODC) / Offshore Dedicated Team (ODT)
This kind of operation is a perfect solution for businesses wishing to augment their software development productivity without bearing too much of additional expenses such as hiring extra staff or investing into other resources. For example, software development outsource based on the ODC/ODT models works well for big companies who need to quickly extend their teams or start-up companies aiming at reducing expenses and getting guaranteed results.
This model involves teams that are an extension of the client’s team that is placed at a different location(s). An Offshore Development Center (ODC) can be maintained by an offshore development organization that has proven offshore delivery capabilities.
There are multiple benefits of opting for this kind of a model including, but not limited to, cost-effectiveness of operations, teams that can scale up and down as needed, more coverage of workhours in a given calendar day (given that multiple time zones could come into play), and so on. A dedicated team provided by an ODC will offer a set of resources with relevant and pre-identified skill sets that the client has full access to and control over in terms of work allocation, status tracking and reporting and getting changes done at short notice.
Advantages
Opting for our dedicated development team engagement model helps clients to draw a flurry of benefits such as:
- Extensive pool of skilled, expert and experienced IT resources
- Considerable savings on staffing and infrastructure requirements
- Ready-to-use and state-of-the-art infrastructure for on-time project completion
- Freedom to upsize or downsize the team as per requirement
- Assured control over management, schedule and delivery of project
- Completely agile project development environment; can keep a check on the progress in real time
- Standard intellectual property protection methods
- Secure, scalable, flexible and transparent
- Executing the role of enhanced IT staff
Fixed Price Model
Fixing the price is about fixing the scope, project requirements, as well as deadlines. This model will never work without thorough initial planning, estimation, and analysis sessions. The more planning you do, the better the outcome. We recommend this service for small-size or urgent projects. This option works perfectly if the specifications of the software to be developed are particularized, clearly defined, and stable.
- Ideal for small-sized or urgent-time projects;
- Working efficiently on the projects with clear, stable, and settled requirements;
- The cost to build an app is fixed and discussed before the fulfillment of the project and doesn’t change no matter how many engineers are involved;
- Only pre-discussed ‘milestones’ of the project are charged, and we expect the payment once it is finished
Advantages
Choosing this engagement model assures an array of fruitful benefits that include:
- On-time and on-budget project completion
- Complete transparency at all project development stages
- Least possibility of midway modifications during project execution
- Least possibility of untimely escalations in the incurred cost
- Optimized performance with due predictability and reliability
Below Product Development Engagements Models Sheet will help you decide your best model selection
Fixed Price | Time & Material | Dedicated Team | |
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Size of project | Small & Medium | Medium & Large | Large |
Requirements | Defined | Evolving | Evolving |
Flexibility | Not available | Yes | Yes |
Client’s control | Little | Significant | Full |