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How to Recruit an Offshore Dedicated Team of Web Developers
There’s no doubt that an offshore team of developers can be as invaluable to your company as your best in-house employee.

According to USFDA, a combination product is one composed of any combination of a drug and device; biological product and device; drug and biological product

If you’re meticulous about your candidate screening process for in-house staff you should be even more meticulous when it comes to offshore staff. Why?- because there are a lot of not-so-serious providers of off

; or drug, device, and biological product and fixed dose combination would include two or more combinations of drug.

Examples of combination products may in

hore dedicated teams. However, if you succeed in choosing the right candidates the return of investment will be truly amazing – having in mind that ?8 / $10 an hour is a real steal for a talented web developer/

lude drug-coated devices, drugs packaged with delivery devices in medical kits, and drugs and devices packaged separately but intended to be used together.

esigner or software engineer.

First things first – the company

At the end of the day the company behind your offshore dedicated team might be the factor that makes you

here is enormous increase in the number of combination products entering the market in the recent years. Combination products have proven advantages but fixe

project a success or failure. Even if a single offshore developer or designer fails to deliver, the company behind that developer or designer should be able to save your project. So the question one must ask o

d dose combinations are still in the process of convincing regulatory authority on their advantages over the single ingredient formulations.

Combination pro

eself is whether the company has what it takes in terms of professionalism to do that.

The company should have enough experience and be big enough to be able to deftly get a replacement for you.

ucts have become life saving products for the pharmaceutical companies who doesn’t have many innovative molecules in their product pipeline and have been inc

he company should also be big enough to be able to meet your needs as you grow. You should not be too big a client for them, and they should not be too big a company for you. You should be important to the prov

easingly used in the product life cycle management. Even the companies having product patents are trying to extend their product life cycle through the combi

der but not so important that they’d do anything to retain you (go bankrupt for example).

Another important aspect of your future partner firm is its management. Do you know the names of its mana

nation products and maximize the revenues. But the companies involved in this practice are overlooking that they are burdening the patients both economically

ing director/CEO, project managers, the board of directors, owners and its executives? If you’re unhappy about something, who will you turn to? Who is your point of contact’s superior? Has the management got exp

and physically. They need to rightly judge the benefits of the combination products and they have to even look at the risks involved when combining the produ

rience in handling clients such as your company? How long have they been in business? Have the management got plans to sell the company soon and have they got room and capital for expansion if needed?

ts. Some of the combination products were well accepted by physicians while others suffered. Companies involved in development of combination products are fi

/> The candidates

Once you feel comfortable with your potential partner company its time to test its candidates. You might be thinking about extensive telephonic interviews and tests,

ding difficulty in defining their combination products and facing various challenges from selecting a combination to marketing it.

Following aspects would a

but I’d recommend trying out a candidate you feel good about after a chat and after having viewed the candidate’s portfolio. A web developer will prove him or herself after a few days of working and not after lo

dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

Which markets to tap where the combination products can do fairly well?
Which combination prod

g telephonic interviews – especially as the offshore developer might not have English as his or her mother tongue.

If you have a telephonic chat with a candidate, don’t get turned off if his or her

cts are meaningful and rational?
Which therapeutic categories to select?
Which Combinations can address unmet needs of the patients?
Do combin

level of English is not entirely fluent. There are many talented software engineers and web developers who does not speak perfect English, but who definitely understand written English very well.

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tions increase the patient compliance?
What would be the developing cost?
How to tackle the risks encountered during combination product developmen

trong>Exit strategy – worst case scenario

What happens if you choose the wrong candidates? Will the partner firm offer you a free replacement to try out? Is there any contract length? Make sure y

t?

As combination products don't fit into the traditional categories of drugs, medical devices, or biological products, the USFDA is in the process of devel

u have an exit strategy in place before any contracts are signed.

Project management platform

If one of your projects ever runs into problems such as missed deadlines or misc

ping new procedures for reviewing their safety, efficacy and quality.

Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust

nceived requirements – which most people in the web development and software engineering business experience every now and then – make sure that your partner firm has got an online platform through which requir

y and representatives from various regulatory agencies are working out to design the regulatory requirements for manufacture and sale of combination products

ments are being funnelled. So that you can make project managers, managing directors and other executives aware of the problems and have someone do something about it quickly. An online project management platf

.

As there is an increasing trend of the combination products companies manufacturing such products should be able to tackle the problems involved in the de

rm allows stakeholders to overlook the project in any phase and without asking developers to mail a bunch of files to concerned persons.

Don’t make the process to advanced

Be

elopment. They need to be wiser in analyzing the market trends and the regulatory requirements.

Companies that provide selfless information through particip

meticulous about the recruitment of an offshore team of developers, but don’t make it too complex at the same time. Sometimes it’s ok to go with your gut feeling and take chances. Action is better than inaction

tion in industry events and feedback to regulatory authorities would be able to face the challenges and will be successful in developing combination products

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