3 Mistakes Product Managers Make While Outsourcing IoT Product Development

Introduction

Project management isn’t just about managing projects. It is a collaborative effort of stakeholders, ranging from in-house teams to outsourced partners. In all fairness, the latter is a more complicated space since an outsider in a possibly different time zone has to access your data, processes, and teams. While outsourcing digital product development projects, enterprises have a long road to trek. Issues from lack of credibility to unclear objectives are directly responsible for a failed engagement and ultimately a sub-standard quality of end output. 

If your outsourcing partner is not performing as per expectations, the fault may be at your end. Here are the top mistakes that project managers knowingly or unknowingly commit while hiring product development partners. 

Why IoT Needs a Cloud-Native IoT Messaging Service

Today, there are two main challenges to building an IoT application that provides bi-directional communication between IoT devices and IoT cloud platforms:

  1. The big cloud providers use IoT solutions that lock-in customer devices to the individual cloud provider.
  2. Managing and deploying a messaging service requires considerable expertise and resources. These factors are serious barriers for many companies that want to deploy production IoT applications.

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