As more and more smart and multi-functionals devices appear in the market, the need for new applications grows really fast. That means the shortage of skilled staff in the industry. As a result mobile application development companies all over the world are clashing with each other. In such a situation market players able to create attractive solutions with lesser expenditures will succeed most of all. The problem is to hire good mobile app developers for lower rates.

Eastern Europe gained many points in the world IT market during the last several years. The reason is clear: being behind Western Europe and USA in economic sphere leads to stronger investment in the most innovative industry branches. Local salaries are much lower, so high-class developers will cost much less for a local Android apps development company. As a result, mobile software vendors from Eastern Europe are today well-known in the world IT market.

Thanks to the Internet, distance is not a big problem. A client from USA or Germany can make a deal with a Ukraine-based company quite easily. Currently Ukraine boasts with about the lowest price level in Europe with mature mobile apps development companies’ pool. A number of universities located in the country provide hundreds of IT graduates each year, so local mobile solutions providers have a good human resource base. Thus you can request an Android or iPad solution for your special needs here and get it quite cheap!

Binary Studio has got big experience of working with customers from Western Europe and USA. We have been present in the mobile applications market for a long time already and have built up a strong team of mobile app developers. We believe that mobile solutions will play a really big role in the human life in the nearest future because mobility brings freedom for anyone. If you are interested in getting some smart personalized apps or wish to share with us your ideas - feel free to join this discussion!

Want to hire development team in Ukraine? Building a software development project includes a number of serious steps. One of them is finding good staff and putting them together. Perhaps the project manager will decide to hire development team. Ukraine is one of the most suitable places for that. Let us discover why.

Where To Find Developers?

The universal demand for skilled software development resources is growing day by day. Numerous IT enterprises and start-ups in Western Europe and North America need more brains. Naturally, this causes shortage of local resources, so more and more IT projects are outsourced.

The world outsourcing industry has rather long history; so many countries are now active players in this field. A project owner looking for foreign contributors has to select a destination first. Different locations have different peculiarities which make them more or less suitable for a certain task. Eastern Europe has become a rather popular outsourcing destination lately. Especially it is true for Western European customers.

Ukrainian Software Development Resources

Being maybe the cheapest place in the region, Ukraine is well involved into the world IT industry development process. Programmers are a big part of local labor resources. Consequently the number of IT outsourcing services companies is growing very fast. So you’ll have a broad choice in case you want to hire development team in Ukraine. Recent researches by CEEOA (Central and Eastern European Outsourcing Association) and other organizations have shown that Ukraine is one of the most promising outsourcing services providers in Eastern European region.

Ukraine got close attention by European outsourcing analytics agencies in 2009 - 2011. Country’s notable success in the IT outsourcing helped it to get a number of awards. They include:

•    TOP 50 Emerging Global Outsourcing Destinations in 2009
•    Gaming Industry’s TOP 12 European Countries in 2009
•    TOP 20 Leading Countries in the area of IT Outsourcing and High-Tech Services in 2010
•    Outsourcing destination of the year in 2011

As we can see, Ukrainian IT community makes certain progress in the European IT outsourcing field. Given that cost-saving trends are anticipated to be dominating the world IT sector in the nearest future, more and more Western European enterprises are likely to consider the idea to hire development team from Ukraine.

How Much It Will Cost?

This progress was based on a number of opportunities local IT sector offers. First of all it is a dramatically low average developer fee. Ukraine is not a EU member so prices and salaries here create very attractive circumstances for western IT companies. Anyone who decided to hire development team in Ukraine could not miss to notice such a big difference and evaluate opportunities it creates for IT projects.

Below is a chart representing Ukraine’s position among other countries of the world software development outsourcing pool. It is based upon a small research that was recently performed by Binary Studio – our company examined a number of our peers in order to find out their prices.

Closer Look At Ukrainian IT Resources

Of course, a strong IT sector cannot appear from nothing. Former USSR’s technical education system used to have a good reputation in the world. Still the country had managed to maintain the level of engineering culture during these years. In the 2000s Ukraine managed to enter the TOP 10 countries with the most certified IT professionals. Keeping such a position is a real challenge for the local IT community.

Actually, software development is becoming more and more popular among students each year. As a result, local IT outsourcing services providers are constantly supplied with skilled and enthusiastic people. So, you’ll definitely find whom to hire. Development teams which Ukraine provides are widely known for the quality of their work.

Binary Studio: Our Teambuilding Experience

Binary Studio as a leading Ukrainian outsourcing vendor is concerned about the progress of local IT community and software development outsourcing industry in general. We believe that sharing experience brings benefits to everyone.

We have been long helping our foreign customers to hire development team in Ukraine. An example of a successful teambuilding project we had is the partnership with Shin Software company. The task was to develop a digital document, Shin FileShare. As our customer needed a team of programmers, our task was to perform search and interviewing of candidates, training and management. Besides, our customer had already experienced an unsuccessful partnership with an Indian outsourcing company. So Binary Studio had to work hard in order to prove that it is really effective to hire development teams in Ukraine.
As a result, a reliable, flexible and highly scalable framework was created for the project (it was called Shin Framework). The solution was successfully developed and our customer got a challenging product, as well as the bright experience of outsourcing to Ukraine. You can get more details at the corresponding Case Study.

Are you willing to know more about outsourcing to Eastern Europe? Or considering to hire development team in Ukraine? Feel free to contact Binary Studio with any questions and suggestions you like.

Main topics touched were:

• BDD+TDD development cycle: Red (acceptance test) - Red (unit test) - Green (unit test) - Green (acceptance test)
• BDD as a bridge between product owner and developer
• BDD from business prospective: Gherkin scenarios (Given-When-Then)
• BDD from developer prospective: making scenarios alive by defining of steps as concise and reusable pieces
• BDD from .NET developer prospective: SpecFlow as great BDD framework which turns Gherkin scenarios into (not only) NUnit test fixtures
• TDD as extremely useful thing to make sure certain piece of software will be working (as expected!) after it's written: testing rocks, debugging sucks
• TDD extra bonus (consequence) - decoupled code and nice system design

Constantin, Software developer at Binary Studio

So, I had many tasks with creating reports using DevExpress. I’ve never liked creating reports :(. But these reports were a reason why I had an opportunity to visit customer’s office in Zurich, they  needed to to create that report ASAP.

City.

A huge Zurich airport met me after plane.  I don’t know metrics of the airport but it’s a huge one. It even has unmanned train inside.

City has an amazing beautiful historical district. I spent a lot of time just walking on Zurich narrow streets with paving stone. Historical part has an exit to Zurich Lake. Perhaps there is nothing special. Maybe. But it is a good place to relax.

Modern district of the city differs a great deal from historical part. Modern buildings are simply concrete and iron, no particular design, no fancy stuff.

All stuff in Zurich is made comfortably, elaborately and easy. All roads have wide clean sidewalks. There are perfect roads, good bus stations and clean streets. Generally city looks as a rich and quality place.

Food.

As for me Zurich food is the most expensive food in the world. So my favorite dish was a kebab. Kebab wasn’t a sole dish; I ate in a UBS canteen at lunch time. But Zurich kebab was number one :), it’s bigger than Ukrainian shaurma in 2-3 times and it’s tasty. There are a lot of places where you can buy kebab, sausage, burger etc.  People in Zurich like snack food, many people eat food in the street, train. It’s normal for them. At least it isn’t bad.

Transport.

Zurich has perfect transport system. It is never late. It was so pity for me when I was only 1 minute late and couldn’t catch the train. For Ukrainian mentality this is a real challenge :).

In Ukraine I have car and I need 30-40 minutes to get to work from my home (about 15km). It is hard way with traffic jams. In Switzerland I lived near Zurich in small city Dietikon. Road from home to work took me 15 minutes. I relaxed every morning. It’s so good get to work without quarrels on the road :).

Office.

It is an international office. People here work from many countries. You can hear English, German, French, Italian and Russian etc in the office.

Funny people make friendly ambience in the office. There is even a dog :). They have places for relaxing – football table, café. I like such modern and friendly office.  But Zurich office has one lack in comparison with Binary Studio - it’s a sony play station :).

I don’t know about Zurich night life. But I know they don’t like to drink vodka except my friend from Poland Andrzej.

Roman, .NET Department

Binary Studio

Binary Studio, being a dynamic IT outsourcing company of Eastern Europe
is happy to become a knowledge partner of the German-Austrian-Swiss Outsourcing Association (Outsourcing Verband) and the Outsourcing Journal. Having gathered a profound experience of cooperation within German-speaking market, the company is looking forward to expand its business in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

Since outsourcing to nearshore has quite a long history in the DACH region, Binary Studio hopes that we can effectively and positively enrich understanding of IT outsourcing for companies within German-speaking area, as well as establish new contacts to companies searching for new solutions for their business.

Binary Studio is aware of the fact that nowadays what you earn depends on what you learn. We are eager to learn and to exchange our opinions about issues we face in our outsourcing practice. That is the main reason why Binary Studio initiated a knowledge partnership with the Outsourcing Verband.

Outsourcing enables companies to enter new markets, to tap the innovations and expertise of partners and to become more competitive. Our professionals are ready to help companies from DACH region to explore their nearshoring opportunities and benefits from cooperation with a service provider from Ukraine.  

As the economy today is considered to be knowledge–based, Binary Studio helds in high esteem the partnership with the Outsourcing Verband and welcomes this great opportunity to share IT Outsourcing (ITO) related information and best practices with all participants of European German-speaking market. Along with English we speak German and are ready to publish materials in this language for convenience of our readers.

Our practice has shown that knowledge must circulate, and only in circulating it can increase in value. Binary Studio is looking forward to a fruitful cooperation with the Outsourcing Verband and the Outsourcing Journal.

March 31st, Lviv. A small blond from Binary Studio attended Lviv International Outsourcing Forum. The event was supposed to give C-level managers an opportunity to share their experience and do the networking. It was extremely interesting to listen to mature businessmen sharing their expertise.

Moreover it is always a pleasure to attend a well-organized event full of like-minded people and together go over the bothering issues. As a leading nearshore outsourcing services provider in Europe, Ukraine pays much attention to the national IT outsourcing industry growth and development.

Being another step of strengthening ties inside the Ukrainian IT community, LIOF summarized recent achievements of the national software outsourcing industry. Stable growth of this sector was highlighted at the conference while the question of building partnership with foreign IT companies was one of the main topics.

Such European outsourcing organizations as Ukrainian Hi-Tech Initiative EBA and CEEOA supported the event and performed analytical reports of great value. Binary Studio, as a leading outsourcing services provider in Ukraine, also attended this event in order to exchange knowledge with industry peers.

Be the first to know about events we participate on the pages of our blog!

HTML5 development tactics were the main theme of the event. Sergey one of our Lead PHP craftsmen, made a presentation about HTML5 tools for offline applications creation. Such useful components as Web Storage, .appcache, and IndexedDB were discussed. Also, some other techniques of working with databases were touched.

It’s not the first time when HTML5 becomes the topic at the User Group meeting. Given the rapid growth of HTML5 popularity all over the world, it is going to make a big impact on the web development industry in the nearest future. That’s why in Donetsk, one of Ukraine’s biggest centers of IT outsourcing, people are eager to know more about HTML5 development tactics and tips and exchange experience with their fellow developers.

Binary Studio from its side eagerly cooperates with Donetsk IT community activities and supports our developers’ participation in all professional meetings.

Last year’s learning season provided us with quite satisfying results. The developers which worked as Academy’s tutors have achieved some good experience, while our company got a number of new skilled professionals. But what was the most valuable for us – we saw that efficient knowledge sharing is possible! Academy’s success meant that Binary Studio is not just another outsourcing services provider but also a place where new software development professionals are forged.

This time we decided to go further. An intense advertisement campaign is launched using several social networks (most popular in Donetsk). We also cooperate with biggest Donetsk universities and institutes. This week several open tests will be held in order to pick out most talented IT students and graduates. Finally, we are planning to make some improvements in the learning process: more practice, more individual tasks, personal tutorship for all students, etc.

Stay tuned! We are going to share with you all the Academy’s news and updates. Reports about the test results will follow shortly.

Being one of the biggest and most developed places in the country, Donetsk is ready to receive thousands of guests from Europe. Multiple hotels, cafes and recreational places are here at your service. With that, there will be no danger of overcrowding as even the central part of the city provides enough place for lots of people. Actually, vast urban areas are a specific local feature – you can check that on maps!

The city infrastructure is quite well developed. Fabulous Donbass Arena within which the tournament will be held is a bright example. Modern architecture combined with rich planting is definitely worth to take a look at:

We in Binary Studio are sport-loving people, and most of us love football and visit Arena on a regular basis. So feel free to contact us in case you’ll need a good company! Or come to see our office – it is not too far from the Arena. We can talk either about football or about outsourcing IT projects ;) Or both!

Hackathon is a developers' contest which lasts whole day and night. Each team has to produce a working application or a hacking program. Participants are free to choose any language and platform they like. Having fun is the only must :)

Gathering a lot of enthusiastic developers in one place for the whole night turned out to be quite a good idea. Between Xbox tournaments, intense coffee consumption and guitar playing some really nice solutions were produced. The demo began at about 14:00 on Sunday.

You can watch the demo & winner's selection here:

The following projects were nominated:

• 1st place – Obvious Prognosis App
• 2nd place – Traffic Live
• 3rd place – Achthung Polizei! by Binary Studio Team

Our developers were glad to participate. As Sergey says, "Coding all night is not rare for me, but this time it was a really bright new experience due to such a friendly and crowded atmosphere". We are really grateful to our guys for their time, efforts and motivation. Binary Studio is looking forward to more amazing meetings to take part in!