Application Rewrite Well Suited for
Off-shore Development
The Client
- A privately held company that helps organizations take advantage of prepaid card technology
- Offers both turnkey and custom prepaid card programs and a wide range of prepaid card products, such as prepaid retail/agent debit, payroll, corporate disbursement and benefit cards
What the Client Wanted
- An application rewrite; the existing application had significant performance problems due to using inefficient technology to build the application’s screens
- HTML pages needed to be rewritten in .NET
Challenges
While rewriting the application to use more current technology would address the business problem by improving the speed of the application, it would not generate a return on investment.
LÛCRUM’s Solution
- Provided an Engagement Lead, an on-shore resource to work with the client to understand the application, develop the specifications for the rewrite and ultimately assume responsibility for the quality of the delivered technology
- Leveraged the off-shore global development team to handle the rewrite while the on-shore Engagement Lead assured the project was on-time, on-budget and within scope
LÛCRUM’s Approach
Conducted on-shore versus off-shore cost project calculations; subsequently recommended client utilize LÛCRUM’s Global Development Center to do the work more quickly, with the same high quality, and at a lower overall cost to the client.
Efforts
- Assessment and development: six weeks
The Benefits
- Vast improvement in application speed
- Completed the project early and 19 percent under budget
- Delivered true business value by capitalizing on high quality, faster turnaround and lower cost
“I am thrilled with the success of this project and look forward to leveraging LÛCRUM’s Global Development Model for future initiatives.”
- Director, IT Development
