TEAMS AS A SERVICE: WHAT IS IT?
An introduction to success and challenges of Teams as a Service
Social distancing measures resulting from COVID have forced many into a prolonged state of telecommuting. Fortunately for Opentrends and many other tech companies, remote working is not a challenge as we have been doing it for a long time. While our Teams As A Service (or TaaS) offering can be done physically in our client’s office, it was designed to be done remotely.
TaaS is a service product, but also an organizational model. It’s a product because it’s really plug and play — we have a quantification and pricing system that only requires knowing the scope of the project before it produces an estimate and a timeline. Although we launched this service 2 years prior to COVID as an ad-on system, it has grown to an organizational model due to the new working structures that have evolved out of the pandemic. Unlike most custom software or architecture development projects, TaaS does not require a consulting phase. TaaS is a modular adaptable team with a high degree of flexibility, only requiring an established backlog.
TaaS Core Values
The main organizational difference between TaaS and all other organizational models lies in its core values:
What are some challenges to the success of TaaS?
It’s important to be aware of the elements that work against TaaS. Fallacies that may appear as valuable elements but end up slowing things down:
In conclusion, our TaaS was directly inspired by the Agile Manifesto (the principles, not its methodologies) and above all seeks cooperation, sustainable progress and continuous improvement.
With the many TaaS projects we’ve completed, we have achieved a consistent on-time delivery completion rate of 98%, which compared to the typical industry average of 85% (based on waterfall methodologies) solidifies the success of our TaaS offering.
We invite you to meet our TaaS leaders and learn how we can speed up custom software or architecture development for big and medium-sized companies. Contact us today.
Author: German Garcia, International Delivery Director
