Software Development Solutions for teams that have to ship

Start from the problem, not the service name. If the software does not exist yet, the answer is somewhere in Product Development: MVP Development to prove an idea, Software Product Development for a fixed scope and date, Custom Software Development for a long-running system. If it exists and you do not trust it, that is Code Audit & Remediation. If it exists and works but nobody is looking after it, that is Application Maintenance & Support or Application Managed Services. And if the real problem is that you cannot hire the engineers, none of those fixes it - go to Engagement Models instead.

They differ in who manages the engineers and how much structure comes with them. With IT staff augmentation the engineers join your existing team and report to your engineering manager, so you manage them exactly as you manage your own staff. With a dedicated development team you get a standing team working only on your product, you set the technical direction, and we carry recruiting, HR, payroll and retention. An offshore development center is that taken to its conclusion: your own engineering floor in Ho Chi Minh City, without you registering a Vietnamese entity to have one. The engineers are the same people in all three cases.

Yes, and most engagements are more than one. The three engagement models describe how a team is managed and billed rather than what it is allowed to work on, so any of the other thirteen services on this page can be delivered under any of them. A common shape is a code audit first, because it is two weeks and it tells both sides what the real state of the software is before anyone commits to a team. Tell us the direction you expect to move in and we will say what it changes commercially.

You do, from the first commit, and it is the same answer on all sixteen services. Work is done in your repository, on cloud accounts held in your name, with intellectual property assigned to you in the agreement rather than transferred at the end. An NDA is signed before anyone gets access and the first access is read-only. The practical test of all this is what leaving looks like: thirty days of notice, no exit fee, and nothing to migrate because none of it was ever on our side.

It depends on the model rather than the service, and each page states its own figure. Staff augmentation is the fastest at one to two weeks, because it is one engineer joining a team that already exists. A dedicated team is four to six weeks, because a team has to be assembled and you interview everyone in it. QA engineers are two to four weeks. In every case the first week is the same: a 30-minute call, then a written role map with seniority, stack, team shape, timeline and a cost range, before you commit to anything.

Every engineer who touches your code sits in the Ho Chi Minh City office, on company-controlled infrastructure. We are not a network of subcontractors and we do not place freelancers. The offices in the United Kingdom and Australia are commercial and account-facing, which is worth stating plainly because a lot of firms let a London address imply a London delivery team. InApps holds ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certification, and you can ask for a current headcount for the specific stack you need rather than a company total.