Nearshore software development company in Poland

The usual risks of offshore are a different time zone, unclear code ownership and data outside the EU. Since November 2023, our engineers have worked in the Oslo team of Skyfri's energy management system, next to the client's own people.

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Projects
160+

Delivered since 2013

Industries
15+

Industries we have delivered in

Clutch
5.0

On Clutch from 18 verified reviews

Time difference
0-1 h

From DACH, the Nordics and the UK

Incident notice
24 h

To tell you about an incident

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Nearshore vs offshore vs onshore: what is the difference?

Nearshore software development means hiring a team in a nearby country that works in a similar time zone. Software outsourcing is usually described by distance:

  • Nearshore: a team close by, so you share a working day.
  • Offshore: a team far away, with a large time difference.
  • Onshore: a team in your own country.

We are a nearshore partner. Poland is in the CET/CEST zone: the same hour as Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Scandinavia, and one hour ahead of the UK. The whole working day overlaps with your team. Poland is also in the EU, and we process data within the EU (strictly, the European Economic Area).

Dedicated development team, team extension or a full project

Pick the model by how much of the delivery you want to run yourself.

Dedicated software development team

Choose it when you want to hire dedicated developers for a product that keeps evolving: the same core of people works on it for the long term.

Team extension

Our engineers join your team and work in your tools and your Scrum process, next to your own people. This model is also called staff augmentation. Skyfri in Oslo works this way.

Project end to end

We build the whole project with our own team, and you follow progress through sprint demos. Monetor in Stavanger is an example.

How our engineers work inside your team

Your tools

We work in your tools when you want that. For Kyoto Group it was Slack and the client's Jira. For Skyfri it is MS Teams, Outlook with accounts in the client's domain, Slack and the client's Jira.

Scrum and sprints

Kyoto Group ran two-week sprints with regular retrospectives. At Skyfri we hold shared status meetings, retrospectives and Big Room Planning, a planning event we run together with the client. Every sprint ends with a release and a demo, and daily meetings, code review, peer review and documentation run all the way through.

In person at the start

We meet on site when a project begins: Kyoto Group at the start of the project, BizBot at workshops in Warsaw, Oslo and Istanbul.

Roles

On our side you have a Project Tech Leader, a Project Manager or Scrum Master, and a Business Owner. You can take the Product Owner role yourself.

Time reports

You get a report of the time worked every month, as Kyoto Group and Skyfri do.

Kick-off and data access

At the start we hold a kick-off with you and enter the project in our GDPR registers. Whenever the team changes, we update who has access to your data.

Nearshore software development for UK companies

For a team in the UK, Poland is one hour ahead, so stand-ups, demos and planning fit into the same hours.

A UK client gets a data processing agreement (DPA) for each project, based on Article 28(3) GDPR. You are the controller and we are the processor. Code ownership works the same for every client: the economic rights pass to you with every payment, and you receive the source code.

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Nearshore software development for DACH and the Nordics

For teams in Germany, Austria and Switzerland there is no time difference, and the same goes for Scandinavia. Each project has an entry in our record of categories of processing activities (Article 30(2) GDPR).

Four of our nearshore projects are in Norway. Skyfri's energy management system (EMS) steers 7 plants, with more than 5 MWh of storage and more than 4 MW of battery power. Our collaboration started in November 2023 with a technical audit, followed by Big Room Planning with the client in Oslo. We work in time and material and Scrum, and the same core of our engineers has been on the project since 2024.

Kyoto Group's product development ran from January to December 2024 in the same model. In Oslo, BizBot's platform got a new UX and UI, 400 screens in total, with workshops in Warsaw, Oslo and Istanbul. And Monetor, in Stavanger, is a web application we built end to end, in Scrum, on AWS.

Case studies from Norway

Nearshore work in practice: Skyfri, Kyoto Group, BizBot, Monetor

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EU data, GDPR and code ownership

Your data stays in the EU

Production usually runs in your own cloud account, in the EU region you choose, and the test environments we host ourselves run on servers in Poland. Access goes through named accounts, AWS IAM Identity Center and the principle of least privilege, and disks are encrypted.
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Incidents and the end of the contract

We tell you about an incident within 24 hours and help with a supervisory authority inspection within 2 business days. After the contract ends we delete or return your data within 10 business days and confirm it in writing within 7. Our GDPR documents were prepared with a law firm acting as data protection officer and approved by the management board, and we review our procedures every 12 months.
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You own the code

The economic rights (copyright) to the code pass to you with every payment, for the purposes defined in the contract, and you receive the source code. The working repository stays in our controlled environment. We agree the SLA with each client in the contract, and support right after launch (hypercare) is possible, with its scope and length agreed before the start.
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Why teams build with us

Order Group is a software house from Warsaw (Chmielna 25, 00-021 Warsaw), run by five co-founders, including our CTO. Your first conversation is with a member of the board. Since 2013 we have delivered 160+ projects in 15+ industries, and we have taken on 50+ AWS engagements across the company. Clients rate us 5.0/5 on Clutch, based on 18 verified reviews.

Cost and how to start

We bill in time and material by default, and a fixed price is possible when the scope is closed. The minimum project budget is 25,000 EUR, and a working MVP usually takes about 3 months.

Start with the free discovery workshop: it ends with an MVP scope, a roadmap and an estimate of cost, time and team composition. You can also write through the contact form and get an answer within 48 hours on working days. We also build custom software, mobile apps and cloud platforms.

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Nearshore software development: frequently asked questions

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  • A nearshore software development company builds software for clients in nearby countries from a similar time zone. We are a nearshore company: we work from Warsaw, in the same hour as Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Scandinavia and one hour ahead of the UK, inside the EU.

  • Poland is in the EU and in the CET/CEST time zone, so our engineers work in your hours and your data stays in the EU. Every project gets its own DPA. Skyfri in Oslo is one example: our engineers have worked in its team since November 2023.

  • A dedicated team is a long-term team with the same core of people. In team extension, also called staff augmentation, our engineers work inside your team, in your tools and your Scrum process. A third model is a project end to end, where we build the whole scope with our own team. We agree the model with you before the start.

  • There is no time difference with Germany, Austria and Switzerland and one hour with the UK, so stand-ups, demos and planning happen in shared hours. Every project has its own DPA based on Article 28(3) GDPR and an entry in our record of processing activities.

  • You do. The economic rights (copyright) to the code pass to you with every payment, for the purposes defined in the contract, and you receive the source code. The working repository stays in our controlled environment.

  • We are the processor and you are the controller, with a separate DPA for every project. We tell you about an incident within 24 hours, and after the contract ends we delete or return your data within 10 business days.

  • We bill in time and material by default, the minimum project budget is 25,000 EUR, and a fixed price is possible for a closed scope. A working MVP usually takes about 3 months. The first step is a free discovery workshop.

  • Yes. We work in your tools, such as Slack, Jira or MS Teams, and inside your Scrum process, as we do at Kyoto Group and Skyfri.

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