Top 3 Things to Communicate to Your Staff When Starting Software Outsourcing
Even before you start preparing for your outsourcing project, make sure that the environment in your organization is right.
There are many things that should be taken care of.
Make sure you properly 'sell' software outsourcing not only to the upper management, but also to your staff.
Address any fears and questions even before anybody can raise them.
Selling software outsourcing project to your company, especially to your staff can be very difficult.
They will naturally feel threatened and might even undermine your efforts.
That is why it is very important to communicate the benefits, that software outsourcing can bring to them.
Obviously, before you even start finding a vendor and creating the plans, you have to think about the reaction of your company to the new challenge, that outsourcing will provide.
Staff might think about outsourcing as a threat, they might think they will be made redundant.
Here is how communicate the benefits of software outsourcing to your staff.
1.
You are going to outsource the work, which is very well defined, e.
g.
boring for people doing it day after day for several years.
These might be software maintenance tasks, legacy systems bug fixing, IT support or various well-defined technical tasks.
It will be beneficial for your people to move that work to somebody else, because they will have a chance to take their expertise and teach that the new team, thus gaining new responsibilities.
This will bring a variety to their work, they will have new responsibilities, new tasks, and less boring and repetitive tasks.
As the supervisors, advisors and teachers to the outsourcing team they will gain status (higher, supervisor position).
2.
As they will be relieved from many repetitive tasks they will have a chance to concentrate on important tasks - including analysis, creating company's strategy and vision.
They will gain a new perspective.
They will be able to analyze, define and oversee the tasks for the software outsourcing team.
This will lead to a more prestigious role in the company.
3.
They will have a chance to learn something new.
This is a good test for your staff - you will see if they will be able to rise to a new challenge and move to the new position and evolve.
This might produce new leaders in your company, on both technical and managerial sides.
In the time of change, only the best are able to transform, accommodate, and accept new challenges.
Of course, some will not be able to do that.
Some will not be able to support company during the transformation, so they might find a new role in another department or somewhere else.
When your company is moving to the next level, some will not be able to keep up.
You will only need people committed, able to change and work in this new state of the company development.
There are many things that should be taken care of.
Make sure you properly 'sell' software outsourcing not only to the upper management, but also to your staff.
Address any fears and questions even before anybody can raise them.
Selling software outsourcing project to your company, especially to your staff can be very difficult.
They will naturally feel threatened and might even undermine your efforts.
That is why it is very important to communicate the benefits, that software outsourcing can bring to them.
Obviously, before you even start finding a vendor and creating the plans, you have to think about the reaction of your company to the new challenge, that outsourcing will provide.
Staff might think about outsourcing as a threat, they might think they will be made redundant.
Here is how communicate the benefits of software outsourcing to your staff.
1.
You are going to outsource the work, which is very well defined, e.
g.
boring for people doing it day after day for several years.
These might be software maintenance tasks, legacy systems bug fixing, IT support or various well-defined technical tasks.
It will be beneficial for your people to move that work to somebody else, because they will have a chance to take their expertise and teach that the new team, thus gaining new responsibilities.
This will bring a variety to their work, they will have new responsibilities, new tasks, and less boring and repetitive tasks.
As the supervisors, advisors and teachers to the outsourcing team they will gain status (higher, supervisor position).
2.
As they will be relieved from many repetitive tasks they will have a chance to concentrate on important tasks - including analysis, creating company's strategy and vision.
They will gain a new perspective.
They will be able to analyze, define and oversee the tasks for the software outsourcing team.
This will lead to a more prestigious role in the company.
3.
They will have a chance to learn something new.
This is a good test for your staff - you will see if they will be able to rise to a new challenge and move to the new position and evolve.
This might produce new leaders in your company, on both technical and managerial sides.
In the time of change, only the best are able to transform, accommodate, and accept new challenges.
Of course, some will not be able to do that.
Some will not be able to support company during the transformation, so they might find a new role in another department or somewhere else.
When your company is moving to the next level, some will not be able to keep up.
You will only need people committed, able to change and work in this new state of the company development.