In honour of the upcoming holiday, we wanted to spend a little time exploring how application development and product management can leverage managed services as well as (or better) other parts of the organization more traditionally associated with such outsourcing partnership.

Smaller organizations have few, if any infrastructure-specific employees, but instead focus hiring product and development roles to improve the development cycle and strength of features for an application. This makes a lot of sense, especially when provisioning cloud-based infrastructure has never been easier.

Yet, even with outsourced infrastructure, the actual responsibility of managing the more traditional parts of IT fall on the development staff. This is obviously not optimal, given the differences in product development within  infrastructure management.

Where does that leave an organization with an over-taxed development team and not enough infrastructure management knowledge internally? Managed services, of course!

Utilizing an MSP means more than simply offloading work …