Build-Operate-Transfer

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With Build-Operate-Transfer, you can establish remote operations for your company to optimise the costs, extend your business capacity and acquire hard-to-find competencies.

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What problems we can help you solve

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Fast-approaching deadlines

When your teams are at their maximum capacity, it’s difficult to find extra resources to complete projects on time. We can help you find experts almost instantly.

increasing software development cost problem

Increasing software development costs

Building an offshore development centre doesn’t mean that you have to compromise on quality. With our specialist, you can be sure that this won’t be the case, all optimising your costs.

outdated applications and legacy code problem

Outdated applications and legacy code

Do you have applications that need upgrading or code to be rewritten? Our developers are here to help, no matter how big or small the project is.

not enough resources to scale problem

Not enough resources to scale

Digital transformation has finally taken off in 2020. Get in touch with us and we’ll support you in scaling your teams to take advantage of this trend.

low talent retention problem

Low talent
retention

Hiring the best people is only the first step in helping them perform at a top level. Great onboarding is another – we know how to get there.

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Problems with recruiting specialists

Finding the right talent locally can be challenging. At Spyrosoft, we have the necessary resources and knowledge to help you recruit experts that will fit your project needs.

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“The team at Spyrosoft has not only been a reliable technological partner but has also provided the additional technical expert resources we needed to help scale our digital products faster. We have been able to offer our customers new unique services and reliable, secure applications that were developed on time, within budget, remotely.”

Lee Newton, Head of Leisure at Ordnance Survey

How does Build Operate Transfer work

Build-Operate-Transfer is a partnership model that allows you to quickly extend your operational capabilities by accessing an outsourced team of experts.

With support from your nearshore/offshore business partner, you set up a development centre abroad, hire new people locally and then include them back into your company.

If you need to explore this topic more, read what the Build-Operate-Transfer model is and how it works in detail.

15 £

BILLIONS

Annual IT outsourcing spend across the UK’s largest IT services users

75 %

The percentage of UK companies that worry about retaining their intellectual property

74 %

The percentage of UK that want to keep agile ways of working when they outsource

Build

The Build stage of the Build-Operate-Transfer engagement model is all about creating an offshore team and equipping it with everything it needs to become successful. This includes tangible (digital devices, office space) and intangible (knowledge transfer) assets. Both are managed by Spyrosoft.

This stage is crucial for the whole collaboration to be completed effectively and in an agreed timeframe. It usually lasts 1 – 3 months, although if the potential team members are ready to be onboarded, as is the case at Spyrosoft, it can be shortened to 1 – 2 weeks.

What’s important, the Build stage can be offered on its own, contrary to the other two phases of the model.

If you’d like to know more about this stage, check this article about the Build stage of BOT.

Shorter time-to-market

Cost savings

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“We really feel that we’re getting a great service for what we were paying. The whole thing is transparent at all times and the responsibilities were set as clearly as possible, with, for example, the recruitment process covered by Spyrosoft in its entirety.”

Oluf Riddersholm, former Chief Financial Officer at TrackMan

Operate

This stage includes expanding the team if and when necessary as well as process implementation to ensure the technical abilities of the team and the project’s business maturity. Towards the end of this phase the transfer of the lead programmers and team leaders into the partner’s company may also be scheduled.

The goal here is achieving a stable and fully operational development process. This will be crucial down the line when you move to the Transfer stage and will make this stage smoother.

Here’s more information about the Operate stage of the BOT model.

State-of-the-art technologies

Ability to rapidly scale

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“Our team in Wroclaw is an extension of the team based in another location, we do not replace anyone in terms of competences or team functions. We are a part of different teams working on various projects. This means also that we have contact with the end customers.”

Dagmara Tluszcz, Site Manager at GOD mbH

Transfer

The Transfer stage is the closing stage of the Build-Operate-Transfer model where after a thorough review, the teams that have been working on your project are now being included in your company.

Your vendor’s employees are now employed by you. If everything goes well in the two earlier stages, this stage should be straightforward.

Read the article about the Transfer phase of BOT.

Effortless onboarding

Lower talent retention

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“As for the Transfer stage, we were simply ready to scale at one point into the collaboration. We wanted to show our customers how quickly we can get new teams onboarded. In Germany – with its limited pool of developers – it would never be possible to set up a team in 1 – 2 months.”

Igor Krahne, CEO at GOD mbH

Workflow and timeline

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Build Phase
4 – 8 weeks

  • Spyrosoft sets up a core team, office space & infrastructure
  • Client grants access to project documentation and communication channels
  • Spyrosoft analyses a project and its requirements
  • Sharing knowledge strategy is agreed, as well as ramp up plan
  • Final responsibilities matrix and adjustment of the team setup
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Operate Phase
from 1 year up

  • Spyrosoft manages the teams in remote cooperation with Client and in accordance with Client’s business needs
  • We provide necessary replacements, office and IT admin, as well as HR, legal and finance functions
  • Teams are managed in accordance with Client’s company culture
  • Full cost transparency
  • IP belongs to Client
  • Spyrosoft can extend or reduce the core team on an on-demand basis
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Transfer Phase
4 – 8 weeks

  • Complete or a part of operations is transferred to Client
  • This includes agreements, employee contracts, and necessary infrastructure and admin staff
  • Spyrosoft can keep providing certain functions and infrastructure elements post this phase

Worldwide presence that support “Follow the Sun” strategy 

With our multilingual, international team located on 3 continents – in Europe, South America and Asia – we’re able to provide round-the-clock customer support and significantly decrease time to resolution.

Frequently asked questions

In the traditional outsourcing model, once your partnership ends, there isn’t a way to access the resources you’ve used in the past, including the expertise you’ve gathered and the people that have worked on your team. It isn’t the case with the Build-Operate-Transfer engagement type where you keep the knowledge team even after you and your business partner are no longer working together and the team is transferred into your company.

Yes, we do. Spyrosoft is an agile company and we were founded on the principles of Agile. With Spyrosoft, you can be sure that the processes we use together will closely integrate with those used at your organisation. We have daily Scrums standups, retrospectives and iterative ways of developing our customers products and services. This is ingrained in all that we do.

Given our agile basis of collaboration, we can follow all our customers procedures and standards. The Build-Operate-Transfer partnership ensures that your dedicated teams will be working in the exact same way as your in-house employees do. The first stage of the collaboration (Build) involves understanding your product roadmap and goals, building and aligning to your company culture, assigning resources and providing training where required and making sure all the elements are embedded into your newly formed group of Spyrosoft experts.

This will depend on the specific requirements of your project, the desired timelines and the size of the team(s) that will provide services. However, on average we are confident we can start working with our customers within 2-4 weeks of initial contact. For further details, please do not hesitate to contact us.

We are very aware of how difficult it can be to recruit people with niche or highly specialised technical skills. However, Spyrosoft, as a global technology services company, has a vast pool of experts located in different parts of the world. From our offices in the UK, Poland, Germany, Croatia, and the US we are able to quickly assign a fully or partially remote team to support your project.

We have extensive experience working with global companies, so we routinely use multiple tried and tested communication and workflow management tools such as Jira, Skype for Business, Zoom, Slack, Trello and Asana, as well as Microsoft applications such as Teams, Stream, etc.

Spyrosoft uses a Framework Agreement to present terms of business. Sitting under the Framework Agreement, Work Orders are written to describe services for each project engagement or resource allocation. We will always seek customer Work Order approval before commencement of services. Intellectual Property for work undertaken will transfer to our customers upon payment of services. Spyrosoft monthly invoices have 30-day payment terms and are presented with all associated timesheets and any applicable expenses for each Spyrosoft consultant that has delivered services.

Spyrosoft is happy to work on either a fixed price basis per project, or a time and materials basis for delivery of ongoing services. Please contact us with further details so we can work on a price estimate for your project, or so that we can present and discuss our rate cards.

This will depend on the specific requirements of your project, the desired timelines and the size of the team(s) that will provide services. However, on average we are confident we can start working with our customers within 2-4 weeks of initial contact. For further details, please do not hesitate to contact us.

We are very aware of how difficult it can be to recruit people with niche or highly specialised technical skills. However, Spyrosoft, as a global technology services company, has a vast pool of experts located in different parts of the world. From our offices in the UK, Poland, Germany, Croatia and the US we are able to quickly assign a fully or partially remote team to support your project.

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