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Offshore Development Center Services: Scope, SLAs and Deliverables
Our offshore development center services cover software engineering, QA, DevOps, design, business analysis, delivery management and application support, delivered by dedicated teams in India. This page is the service menu. For each service line, it states what is included, what is deliberately excluded, what you receive and the service level you can hold us to. It then explains the governance model, reporting cadence and escalation path behind every engagement. Exclusions are listed as clearly as inclusions, because that is what buyers actually need to compare providers. Tell us which services you need.
ODC Service Matrix
Every offshore development center is built from a combination of service lines, sized to your product and stage. The matrix below shows each line with its scope, its exclusions, the deliverables you receive and a typical service level. Exact service levels are agreed per contract, but these are the standards most engagements start from. Use the excluded column to see clearly what stays on your side, so there are no gaps once delivery begins. Each line is delivered through our offshore development center in india.
| Service line | Included | Excluded | Deliverable | Typical SLA |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Software engineering | Feature development, code review, unit tests, technical documentation | Product strategy and final prioritisation | Reviewed, tested code every sprint | 85%+ of committed sprint scope delivered |
| QA and testing | Test planning, manual and automated regression, defect reporting | Business user acceptance sign-off | Test reports and release recommendation | Regression results ready by the start of your next working day |
| DevOps and cloud | CI/CD, infrastructure as code, monitoring, cost reporting | Cloud consumption and third-party licence costs | Pipelines, IaC repositories, monthly cost report | Priority-1 response within 30 minutes during covered hours |
| UI/UX design | User flows, wireframes, high-fidelity designs, design system | Brand identity and marketing creative | Figma files and component library | Designs ready one sprint ahead of build |
| Business analysis | Requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria | Ownership of the business case | A groomed, ready backlog | Two sprints of ready stories at all times |
| Delivery management | Ceremonies, reporting, risk management, team HR | Commercial decisions on the client side | Weekly report and monthly steering pack | Weekly report every week without exception |
| Application support | Level 2 and 3 fixes, maintenance, minor enhancements | Level 1 end-user helpdesk | Resolved tickets and release notes | Priority-1 workaround within four hours of response |
Software Engineering
Dedicated engineers build features in your stack, review each other’s code, write tests and document decisions. They work in your repositories and tools, and each sprint ends with working, reviewed code rather than progress estimates.
QA and Testing
QA engineers plan testing, run manual and automated regression and report defects with clear reproduction steps. Because testing runs during your night, results are usually ready when your team starts the next day.
DevOps and Cloud
DevOps engineers own pipelines, infrastructure as code, monitoring and cloud cost reporting. They can also cover on-call for the US overnight window, since India’s working day falls during it. Monthly reports track savings.
Design and Business Analysis
Designers and business analysts keep the build pipeline full. Designs and user stories stay at least one sprint ahead of development, so engineers never wait for decisions or screens. For full products, see our web application development services.
Delivery Management
A delivery manager runs ceremonies, tracks risks, reports progress and handles team HR, performance and attendance. You get one accountable person on the provider side for everything except product decisions.
Application Support
Support covers level 2 and 3 fixes, maintenance and small enhancements for live systems, with response targets set by severity. First-line end-user support stays with your own helpdesk or a separate provider.
What Is Excluded, and Why It Matters
Most provider websites list what they do and stay silent on what they do not. That silence is where disputes start, because each side assumes the other owns the gap. Listing exclusions explicitly protects both sides and makes proposals comparable. The exclusions below apply to most offshore development center engagements by default. Any of them can be added to scope where it makes sense, but only by agreement and in writing.
Product Strategy and Prioritisation
The team advises on priorities, effort and technical trade-offs, but your product owner decides what gets built and in what order. Keeping that decision with you keeps the product aligned with your business.
Cloud and Licence Costs
Cloud consumption, monitoring platforms and third-party licences are billed to your accounts, not bundled into rates. That keeps costs transparent and leaves you in full control of the accounts. There is no markup on them.
First-Line User Support
Answering end-user questions and handling account issues is a different skill set from engineering. Level 1 helpdesk work stays outside scope unless it is specifically contracted. Escalations from it flow to level 2.
Brand and Marketing Creative
Product designers build interfaces and design systems, not brand identities, campaigns or marketing websites. Those need specialist creative agencies with a different process. The team works from your brand guidelines and existing assets instead.
Regulatory Sign-Off
The team builds and documents controls that support compliance, but formal regulatory sign-off and legal opinions stay with your compliance function and advisers. Evidence for audits is prepared by the team, ready for your reviewers.
Governance Model
Clear governance is what keeps an offshore development center aligned with your business as it grows. It defines who makes which decisions, how changes are agreed and how performance is reviewed. Without it, small misunderstandings compound into missed expectations. The structure below applies to every engagement, scaled to team size. Small teams combine some roles, while larger centres add an account lead and a quarterly business review with your leadership.
Roles on Both Sides
Your side provides a product owner and an executive sponsor. Our side provides a delivery manager and tech lead, plus an account lead for larger centres. Each role has documented responsibilities from the start.
Decision Rights
Product decisions belong to you. Technical decisions belong to the tech lead, within the architecture you approve. Staffing and people decisions belong to the delivery manager, with your approval for new hires.
Change Management
Changes to team size, roles or scope are requested in writing, assessed for cost and timing, and agreed at the monthly steering call or sooner if urgent. Nothing changes without written confirmation.
Quarterly Business Review
For larger centres, a quarterly review covers outcomes delivered, cost, team health, risks and the roadmap ahead. It keeps the engagement focused on business results, not just activity. Actions are tracked to closure.
Reporting Cadence
Good reporting gives you visibility without adding meetings. Each report has a defined audience, format and purpose, so stakeholders get the information they need at the right level of detail. Live data is always available in your own tools between reports. The table shows the standard reporting cadence for an offshore development center, which is adjusted to fit your existing processes and stakeholder needs during onboarding. Formats can follow your existing templates.
| Report or meeting | Frequency | Audience | Contents |
|---|---|---|---|
| Daily stand-up | Daily | Team and product owner | Progress, plans, blockers |
| Sprint review | Every two weeks | Product owner and stakeholders | Working software demo and feedback |
| Weekly status report | Weekly | Product owner and sponsor | Delivered work, risks, hours, next priorities |
| Monthly steering call | Monthly | Delivery manager and your leadership | Velocity, quality, budget, team health, changes |
| Quarterly business review | Quarterly | Executives on both sides | Outcomes, cost, roadmap, strategic risks |
Weekly Status Report
A short written report covers delivered work, upcoming priorities, risks, blockers and hours. It takes minutes to read and keeps stakeholders informed without attending ceremonies. Risks are flagged early, never hidden.
Sprint Reviews
Every two weeks, the team demonstrates working software. Demos use real builds, not slides, so progress is always verifiable and feedback goes straight into the backlog. Stakeholders can attend any review.
Monthly Steering Call
The steering call reviews velocity, quality, budget and team health, and agrees structural changes. Actions are recorded and tracked to closure in the following month’s report. Decisions are confirmed in writing.
Live Visibility
Backlog, code, builds and test results live in your tools throughout. You never depend on a report to know what the team is doing on any given day. Access is never restricted.
Escalation Path
Even well-run engagements hit problems. What matters is how quickly they reach the right person and get resolved. A defined escalation path means nobody has to guess whom to call, and issues move up only when they need to. The table shows the standard escalation levels for an offshore development center and the response time you can expect at each one. Our delivery guarantees set out the commitments behind them.
| Level | Contact | Typical issues | Response time |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tech lead | Technical blockers, quality concerns | Same working day |
| 2 | Delivery manager | Delivery slippage, people issues, process gaps | Within one working day |
| 3 | Account lead | Persistent delivery or commercial issues | Within two working days |
| 4 | Executive sponsor | Relationship-level concerns | Within three working days |
Level 1: Tech Lead
Most issues, such as technical blockers or code quality concerns, are resolved directly with the tech lead in the daily overlap window, usually within the same working day. Most issues end here.
Level 2: Delivery Manager
Delivery slippage, staffing concerns and process problems go to the delivery manager, who owns the corrective plan and reports progress until the issue is closed. Corrective actions have owners and deadlines.
Levels 3 and 4: Account and Executive
Issues that persist, or concern the overall relationship, escalate to the account lead and then the executive sponsor, who have the authority to change staffing, terms or approach. Escalations are rare.
Production Incidents
Live system incidents follow a separate severity-based process, with priority-1 response within 30 minutes during covered hours and a written review after every major incident. Lessons feed back into runbooks and monitoring.
Getting Started
A discovery sprint defines which service lines you need. Our pricing packages show costs, and our dedicated developers model covers smaller needs. Larger programmes are covered by our enterprise software development services.
Frequently Asked Questions
An offshore development center typically provides software engineering, QA and testing, DevOps and cloud, UI/UX design, business analysis, delivery management and application support. These are combined into a dedicated team sized to your product, working under your direction in your own tools and processes.
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