When people are talking about outsourcing, usually they are talking from the cost reduction perspective. Especially this is important for the startups with limited, low or no cash flow. It’s true since the prices for the software development can be drastically reduced with IT outsourcing e.g. to Ukraine. But this is only one out from 10+ advantage of the outsourcing to Ukraine!

1. 10+ Reasons for IT
Outsourcing to
Ukraine
Andriy Kushnarov
CEO & Founder
SITO: Software & IT Outsourcing

2. Intro
FAQ
Questions & Answers
Ukraine
10+ Reasons for Outsourcing to Ukraine

3. INTRO

4. Email From My Friend
INTRO

5. INTRO
1 INTROI’m from Ukraine (now Hamburg, DE)
2 INTRO15+ years of working in Outsourcing
3 INTROHad a software outsourcing company in Ukraine
4 INTROTrainings and Coaching for IT Outsourcing companies in Ukraine
5 INTRO60+ IT Outsourcing providers : software-it-outsourcing.com
A n driy K u s hnarov
(CEO, Founder @ SITO)

6. UKRAINE

7. What do you know about Ukraine?

8. 1 Area: 603 628 KM2 (DE: 357 168 KM2)
UKRAINE
4 Timezone: EEST (UTC+2)
3 Capital: Kiev
2 Population: 42.4M (DE: 82.8M).

9. Quiz: Who are these Ukrainians?

10. Quiz: Who are these Ukrainians?
1 Dr. Wladimir Klitschko 2 Juri Gagarin 3 Max Levchin

11. UKRAINE
Video from
“Ministry of Economic Development
and Trade of Ukraine”
youtu.be/bSRgoA09oMg

12. 10+ Reasons for IT
Outsourcing to Ukraine

13. #1 Price / Quality Ratio
Cost reduction in prices for software development & design 60%+
The quality is as good as German

14. #2 Huge talent pool
150K Technical IT Professionals
Prediction: 200K in 2020 (every year +25K growth)

15. #3 Good tech education
402 universities and colleges (in DE around 400)
30 000+ Tech Graduates Annually
14% IT people have 2+ university degrees

16. #4 English proficiency
- 80% of IT Professionals have a solid
English knowledge

17. #5 European time zone
UTC+2 (EEST)
Time difference with Germany: 1 hour
Time difference with Great Britain: 2 hours
2hours
1hour

18. Good performers opened to challenges
#6 European culture
Healthy “low-context” culture (facts and figures VS personal relations)
Good work ethics

19. Tell me your “culture difference”
story?

20. DOU.ua: 238 000 participants
10+ World/Europe size IT Conferences
Hacatons, Meetups and Trainings
#7 Huge IT community

21. #8 1000+ IT Outsourcing companies

22. 1-2 days to kick-off the team/project (contract negotiations not included)
High quality
#9 Good customer relations
& high quality service
Client-oriented approach

23. #10 Big players already outsource to Ukraine

24. #11 Most IT specialists are with outsourcing experience
#12 Senior and certified specialists
#13 Modern technologies (e.g. Blockchain, Virtual Reality, IoT, etc.)
#14 Simplified Tax system for IT Specialists
#15 40% of IT Specialists are with 7+ years of experience
20 Reasons (Part 1)

25. #16 2-3 hours flying distance to Ukraine
#17 No visa is needed
#18 5 major IT clusters
#19 Good transport connection
#20 Only 10 Bank holidays per year
20 Reasons (Part 2)

26. FAQ

27. FAQ: What kind of IT services can I outsource?
Almost all possible services:
- Software development
- Quality Assurance / Testing
- Design (Web / Mobile / UI / UX / Graphics)
- DevOps
- IT Managers

28. FAQ: What kind of IT Outsourcing models exist?
Most common:
- Project based outsourcing
- Outstaffing (body leasing)
- Offshore R&D Center
(a separate meetup on this topic is comming)

29. FAQ: Is it safe in Ukraine?

30. FAQ: How to select a right company for
outsourcing
Company Price
(1-5)
Technology
(1-5)
Speed of
onboarding
(1-5)
Speed of
growth
(1-5)
... Score
IT Profi 5 3 1 3 ... 3
WEB IT 4 4 5 4 ...
4.25
Soft Out 2 4 5 5 ... 4

31. FAQ: Does IT outsourcing trend go down?
NO. Every year the Ukraine’s IT industry
shows growth at 15-20%

32. FAQ: Is Ukraine in EU (legal) zone?
NO. But this is not a problem since most of
IT Outsourcing companies have EU entity
and you contract with the entity.

33. S o u r c e s
- https://youtu.be/bSRgoA09oMg
- https://youtu.be/jdSQuanI8Z8
- https://goo.gl/UgdQwr
- https://goo.gl/QGVDXD
- https://goo.gl/PoYzuR
- https://goo.gl/5Ptnm7
- https://goo.gl/KnxQJS
- https://goo.gl/fsna8e
- https://goo.gl/Bco8VX

34. Questions?
Meetup Community:
- www.meetup.com/de-DE/IT-Outsourcing-HH/
- www.meetup.com/de-DE/IT-Outsourcing-Berlin/
C o n ta c t s
Thanks for coming!
Email: andriy@software-it-outsourcing.com
A n d r i y K u s h n a ro v
Linkedin: linkedin.com/in/andriykushnarov/
Xing: xing.com/profile/Andriy_Kushnarov/