.Net developers for hire

Midas Data AS
“For Midas Data this solution is invaluable. Outsourcing gives us the possibility of regulating our development capacity according to our needs. This gives a financial gain, but equally, or more important, is the access to competent resources.”

Per Maastad, Managing Director, Midas Data AS.
Starting point:
Midas Data is the largest supplier of IT systems for the real estate market in Norway (70% market share) and is now realizing their international strategy. Xcode is participating with development resources in the development of a next generation application for property management. After making a thorough cost / benefit analysis Midas decided to outsource part of their development for a period of 2-3 years.

Technology:
The technology used in this project is Framework .Net 3.5, Visual Studio 2008 Team System, TFS 2008, C#, MS SQL Server 2005, DevExpress, CSLA Framework 3.5, CodeSmith Prof 4.1.4.
The project is managed using Scrum, an agile methodology that is well suited for managing a large development projects with teams that are geographically spread. Most of the functional specifications are developed by Midas Data in Norway, while the team in Xcode is developing the application according to the specifications.

The result:
We tested this alternative by executing a test project. That went well and Midas Data decided to hire two resources on a full time basis. This number has later been increased to four, and additional two developers from January 2009, bringing the total number to six developers on a full time basis. As a customer you will see the result from this with the new property management solution in late autumn 2009 and a new real estate broker solution in 2010/11.