When and How to Switch Your Development Vendor
This guide offers a practical step-by-step framework for evaluating your development vendor, identifying early signs of potential issues, and ensuring a smooth transition to a more suitable partner.
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Playbook for Managing and Changing External Development Partners
A practical guide for CEOs, founders, product leaders, and delivery managers working with outsourced development teams.
Whether you're experiencing delivery issues or want to assess your current vendor's performance, this guide provides the tools to make informed decisions with minimal risk. You'll get a step-by-step framework to assess your vendor, decide when it’s time to switch, and manage a smooth transition without disrupting your roadmap.
Ideal for Healthcare, FinTech, and SaaS teams looking to reduce delays, improve release predictability, and regain strategic control.
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FAQ
Repeated delays, vague estimates, growing quality assurance (QA) issues, and a lack of understanding of the business context are typical early signs. The guide helps you identify these patterns before they become systemic blockers.
This is not about “firing and replacing.” The safest approach is a gradual transition: allow the new team to stabilize their work on specific modules while the current team completes the work within the specified scope. Our guide provides detailed instructions.
Sometimes, yes. If the problems stem from communication, misaligned expectations, or scope creep, they can be solved. The guide helps you decide when it's still fixable and when it's not worth the risk.
Look at stability, ownership mindset, response in edge cases, and roadmap alignment. We’ve included a practical shortlist evaluation framework to help you dig deeper during the vendor selection phase.
Lost time, undermined trust within the team, and missed opportunities for growth. Many companies delay switching out of fear. This guide will help you move forward with clarity, not guesswork.
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