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Welcome to the pages of Softheme company blog. During years of successful work in the sphere of software outsourcing we have accumulated the rich experience of project development of various complexity levels. We believe that it is time to share our knowledge base with the IT-community. |
This blog will contain constantly updated articles covering the topics of programming, website development, project management, and legal side of operation of an outsourcing company in Ukraine. We hope that our solutions and examples will prove to be useful to other participants of the IT outsourcing market. |
Posts Tagged ‘Project management’Software Outsourcing Projects: Risks and ResponsibilitiesThursday, April 1st, 2010Check out a new Softheme’s presentation covering the basics of outsourcing projects management. It reveals the importance of properly defined and distributed risks and responsibilities in software outsourcing projects, the role of technical expertise and evaluation, transferring business rules and scenarios to technical specifications and algorithms, project schedules and budget management, and more. Bookmark/Search this post with:
      More Tips on Successful IT OutsourcingWednesday, September 2nd, 2009Outsourcing has already proved its position as a powerful business strategy for costs reduction and enhancement of business processes efficiency. Sometimes IT outsourcing projects happen to fail delivering expected results or they simply fail as a business strategy. Yet, this is not an index of any drawbacks in the outsourcing model. While all projects are affected by external forces, special attention should be paid to internal processes of any project. Among the common reasons of IT outsourcing projects’ failure is insufficient control or lack of communication with the outsourcing service provider, unclearly defined core goals and objectives of the project, etc. In an IT outsourcing project, when something goes wrong, it is critical to recognize early warning signs and take appropriate measures to correct the situation. If not recognizing the problem and correcting the situation, a customer should at least close the project in order to avoid losing too much money. Bookmark/Search this post with:
Offshore Software Project Management for CustomersTuesday, August 11th, 2009The success of an IT outsourcing project depends not only on an offshore provider who develops the project but also on how the project is managed remotely by the client. With a little input from their end customers shouldn’t expect for a project to be successful in the long run. The reason for this is simple: a client knows his business requirements and processes better than the vendor does. Outsourcing companies often work in a different part of the world and what they really can do is only develop a software solution or provide required IT services basing on the input provided by the customer. IT project management approachesUsually for large projects customers engage a dedicated IT project manager whose goal is to interact with the offshore development team acting as a virtual bridge between the client’s business and the offshore programmers. If a project is done without a dedicated IT project manager, a company may consider some simple tips on how to manage a development project quite successfully. They are listed below. Bookmark/Search this post with:
Software Project: 5 Steps to SuccessWednesday, July 22nd, 2009It is well known that a relatively small number of IT projects can be considered as fully successful. A lot of good ideas fail to live to see their moment of glory. This is because costs of software product development pay off slowly and commercial interest towards the project fades away before the stable version of the product is released. For enterprises who automate their production process, positive result of automation is revealed not after a new software product is implemented but rather after series of trainings held for personnel, modifications in the technological process being made, and sufficient data base is accumulated. For companies who invest funds in idea development, the way from idea generation to its transformation into product demanded on the market requires substantial investments and lasts not a single year, as a rule. During all this time a software product develops and improves but not always there is enough patience to wait till the product works with high return. Bookmark/Search this post with:
Project Management: Cost ‘n’ Price RelationshipFriday, June 12th, 2009One of the things that we believe to be important for project management is the proper understanding of the relationship between cost and price. In this post we will try to clarify the meanings for these two words. Price is the amount of money or something valuable that a customer is ready to pay or give in order to receive something valuable from you. In terms of software project management, the thing that the stakeholder receives is the project being done, and the things that the customer and stakeholders receive are the results of the project – be it either goods or services. Money is what usually paid for doing the project. At the same time, Cost is the amount of resources (equipment, materials, money, people, etc) that are utilized in order to produce goods or services, the deliverables of the project. Bookmark/Search this post with:
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