Do dedicated developers reduce development costs?
Jul 25, 2024 3 Minute Read
Every Developer is Unique
After five years of service, we’ve learned that building any piece of software is a lot like building a house—and when you’re building your dream home, you don’t hire a new general contractor every week. That’s because while every contractor can build your home, they all have a unique approach and their own network of suppliers to make that happen.
That Causes Switching Costs
Because of this, any time you switch a developer, the new developer has to first work backwards and see what the last one did, figure out what wasn’t done to their standards, and then plug their own best practices and procedures to build out the rest.
The time the new developer spends doing this, is time not spent building your project—time that you still pay for. This costs you not only with money, but also something you can’t recover: time. When you have a dedicated developer, there are no switching costs across your project.
Your Developer is Part of the Solution
The first step is deciding what the software will do for you. If you’re an established business, it can save you time and money by replacing several business processes or streamlining existing ones. For a new business, it can make that crucial link between your idea and its first customers.
Once you know the software’s mission, you then explain that to your developer, and they will break it down into one or several milestones, that altogether combine into a quote. Once you approve the quote, the developer will then create your software.
Your developer and the quote are all part of one thing—the solution.
