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Outsource development. Build a shared understanding.
Working with an external development team requires sharing the context, priorities and success criteria of your product.
LughSoftware brings together engineers in India and your Lugher in France to organise this collaboration with your business and technical stakeholders.
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Start with a scope everyone understands
Before allocating tasks, the teams need a shared view of what the software should enable and which constraints it must respect. User journeys, business rules and dependencies provide the starting point.
An initial scope helps assess mutual understanding, collaboration arrangements and acceptance criteria. Required access is prepared according to the responsibilities assigned.
Make responsibilities explicit
| Role | Contribution to organise |
|---|---|
| Your business and product stakeholders | Priorities, context, trade-offs and acceptance of results. |
| Project manager | Planning, progress, dependencies and open issues. |
| Technical lead | Architecture, technical consistency and code reviews. |
| Developers and QA | Implementation, verification and resolution of defects within the agreed scope. |
| Your Lugher | Understanding needs, communicating context and coordinating France–India exchanges. |
The actual allocation depends on the service selected. With team extension, engineers join your existing organisation and delivery management. For other models, responsibilities are defined during discovery and in the contract.
Your Lugher connects the teams
Your Lugher helps everyone develop the same understanding of the requirement. They support preparation, bring misunderstandings to the surface and help decisions reach the right people.
This role complements your team’s business knowledge and the responsibilities of the project manager and technical lead. The level of involvement is agreed according to the project.
Make progress and decisions visible
The proposed working arrangement includes a shared workspace, acceptance criteria and a record of decisions. Demonstrations make it possible to discuss results using the software being built.
At the start, we agree working languages, overlapping availability, meeting rhythms and how blockers are handled. These arrangements are adapted to your organisation.
Transfer knowledge as the work progresses
Code, the context needed to understand it and delivery procedures are part of the arrangements to define from the beginning. Documentation should allow other people to take over the work.
Repository access, handover, replacement and end-of-engagement arrangements are defined contractually. Operations and support needs require an explicit scope.
What if you are modernising an existing application?
Collaboration starts with transferring business knowledge and agreeing how changes will be validated. Our page “Evolve your monolith. Preserve your business knowledge.” covers technical coexistence, the parallel test environment and the migration stages.
Choose the right collaboration model
- Dedicated team →: build a team around your product over time.
- Team extension →: add skills to your existing organisation.
- Turnkey software →: define a project and its expected deliverables.
For an economic comparison, explore the simulations and assumptions on our Budget page, currently in French. Scope, responsibilities and coordination should all be part of the decision.