Project Management

Risks and responsibilities

in software outsourcing projects

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Roles and responsibilities
Technical expertise and evaluation
Rules and scenarios – specifications and algorithms
Project schedule and budget management
Delivering the results

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 Roles and responsibilities
- Properly defined and distributed responsibilities are an important aspect
in risk management of any software outsourcing project.

- The project should be controlled at all stages, and this includes:

distributing roles
and responsibilities
between

individuals who are competent to take

appropriate actions that address specific risks.

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 Technical expertise and evaluation
- Technical expertise and evaluation in software projects management helps
to mitigate risks on the stages of software project:

analysis development testing delivery

- Absence of the technical expertise leads to:

improperly uncertain unjustified

defined project project end-users
requirements misleading schedule wrong expectations
workload acceptance
estimation criteria

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 Transferring

to

business rules technical specifications

and scenarios and algorithms

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 Rules & scenarios – specifications & algorithms
- This means the following steps should be undertaken:

- describing business scenarios with a good amount of details

- explaining specific functionality
- selecting the right technology flexible enough to address the
business model of the application

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 Rules & scenarios – specifications & algorithms
- This means the following steps should be undertaken (continued):

- verifying the software product architecture on the real-life

cases
- helping testing team to properly define and approach the test
strategy
- defining requirements to the software performance, load
- conducting knowledge-transfer sessions with stakeholders,
the project team

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Project schedule and budget management

CHANGE MANAGEMENT MILESTONES TECHNOLOGY

PROCEDURES

- changes of the - a demo version helps to - the technology chosen

business requirements
lead to changes in
software code
- this influences the
initial project schedule
verify the progress even could have flaws on the
though the release might low levels bringing
not include all the additional problems
planned functionality which need to be solved

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 AND FINALLY!

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 Delivering the results
- Training and presentations help to link requirements with the application functionality
- Bug fixing:
- defining problems in the system
- correcting problems to make sure the application corresponds to the business model
- Installing at the end-user side:
- addressing questions
- helping to understand the way application works
- Maintenance, improvement:
- incorporating small changes which make
the end-users' life easier

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