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Delivery & Process

12 articles on delivery & process, written by the people who did the work.

Delivery & Process

Offshore engineering models: the complete guide

Staff augmentation, pods, ODCs, BOT and captive GCCs on one axis — how much delivery management you want to own — plus what each costs and where each breaks.

3 Sept 20262 minAnimesh Pathak

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Delivery & Process

Making a distributed engineering team deliver

The failure is almost never time zones. It is decision latency, context that lives in people's heads, and a rota that depends on goodwill.

26 Aug 20263 minAnimesh Pathak

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Delivery & Process

What staff augmentation actually costs to manage

The rate is the visible number. The invisible one is your own engineering leads spending their week coordinating people they did not hire.

24 Aug 20263 minAnimesh Pathak

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Delivery & Process

Security and IP when engineering happens offshore

Assignment from the first commit, least-privilege access that is logged, and a data boundary matched to your regulator's rules — not a paragraph of reassurance in a proposal.

16 Aug 20263 minAnimesh Pathak

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Delivery & Process

Setting up a GCC in India

A Global Capability Centre is a captive entity, not a vendor relationship. What that actually requires — and the scale below which it is a more expensive way to get less.

8 Aug 20264 minAnimesh Pathak

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Delivery & Process

Build-Operate-Transfer, step by step

The model gets sold as a way to get an offshore team without the risk. What decides whether it works is a clause in the first contract, not anything in the build phase.

6 Aug 20264 minAnimesh Pathak

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Delivery & Process

Who owns the ERP after go-live

The project ends and the platform does not. Hypercare, the support model, and the internal capability that decides whether adoption survives its second year.

27 Jul 20263 minAnimesh Pathak

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Delivery & Process

Big bang or phased: sequencing a system replacement

One cutover weekend or a year of overlapping systems. The trade is not risk against speed — it is where the risk sits, and whether the project can be stopped and still be worth something.

23 Jul 20264 minAnimesh Pathak

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Delivery & Process

Building software for GeM and GFR procurement

Public-sector engagements are decided by an evaluation matrix, an audit trail that must survive a CAG review, and a documentation burden most vendors discover after signing.

21 Jul 20264 minAnimesh Pathak

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Delivery & Process

ODC vs staff augmentation vs BOT vs GCC

Four offshore engagement models, one axis: how much delivery management you want to own. A decision guide rather than a sales page, including where each one stops working.

17 Jul 20264 minAnimesh Pathak

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Delivery & Process

How long a custom ERP takes, phase by phase

First modules in three to five months, a full operational core in nine to fourteen. What happens in each phase, and which one is usually compressed at the project's own expense.

11 Jul 20264 minAnimesh Pathak

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Delivery & Process

Software projects fail in the two months before the code

After 100+ deliveries, the pattern is unambiguous: outcomes are decided in discovery. Here's the requirement-engineering discipline that de-risks big builds.

18 May 20266 minAnimesh Pathak

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