ODC (Offshore/Offsite Development Center) is a high-end outsourcing business model that provides a dedicated site and professional team according to customer requirements to help customers improve production efficiency and effectively reduce their operating costs. At the same time, the ODC pattern is a proven efficient tool to provide customers with better visibility and predictability during development. Through joint operation and joint training of talents, the two sides gradually possess advanced technologies and form a comprehensive organizational cooperation model featuring joint operation, benefit sharing and risk sharing. ODC will help enterprises actively seek for higher value-added business and expand the high-end market of service outsourcing value chain.
These are the benefits of the ODC molds
1. ODC contracts tend to be long-term customers, which can make team members more stable, so that familiar people can serve the customer for a long time, and greatly reduce the risk of the product.
2. The delivery of ODC services is mostly incremental, such as an iteration every two weeks, so that the customer can find the problems in the project as early as possible and give feedback to fix them as soon as possible. Even kill the project early to cut losses.
3. ODC services need to understand both parties as their colleagues, open (O), cooperation (C). No information is hidden, both parties want to make the product or service good.
4. It is easier to stimulate the creation of both sides. You don’t have to focus too much on the function defined at the beginning, and you don’t have to care too much about KPI (Kill people idea).
5. ODC gives developers more time to continuously improve their understanding of their customers’ business areas and deliver better products and services.
6. Odcs make it easier for software providers to plan, allowing developers to focus on a customer’s project.
7. ODC projects are also easier to plan the personal development of developers and make a long-term plan, so as to increase employees’ identification with the company. A company that can retain talent can surely provide better service.