Posts Tagged ‘software project’

Offshore Software Project Management for Customers

Tuesday, August 11th, 2009

The 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 approaches

Usually 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.

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Software Project: 5 Steps to Success

Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009

It 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.

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