Before an enterprise chooses an outsourcing development company for software development, it must have an understanding of the scope of the project, that is, the project requirements. At the very least, you can clearly describe what functions you want. The more detailed the function points, the easier it is for the project to succeed. In other words, if you don’t even know what you want to do, can this project be done? Can it go well? Some development companies still really dare to take over, grind slowly, and check the requirements step by step. This kind of development progress can be imagined.
So, when an enterprise is doing software development, how should it control the project?
1. Team selection
- Team project experience and cases are very important, and a similar case should be communicated in depth.
- If you understand technology, listen to their understanding of business. If you understand business, let them introduce technical solutions in depth.
- Call the pre-sales and implementation to talk together, avoid digging pits for the implementation before the pre-sales, and follow along.
- Depending on the size of the company, it is best to communicate with the team of people who actually do the project.
- Budget your project to the fullest, it’s a service and no one volunteers. The same demand seems to be able to do 100,000 or 80,000, but there will definitely be differences in project resource allocation. The success of the project depends on luck.
2. Project Execution Management
- First of all, you must have a person who understands business or technology to control the project
- If possible, make OnSite development to avoid uncontrollable offshore development
- Connect with the other party’s project manager and technical manager, and don’t directly communicate with the technical staff for the sake of convenience, because the demand is really out of control.
- During project execution, you must control your own ideas and your boss’s ideas. If the requirements change and adjust frequently, no matter how much development costs you pay, the project is destined to be unfinished.
- Don’t be a hands-off shopkeeper, and don’t sit on the site and stare at the developer every day.
- After starting the cooperation, Party A and Party B are a project team. Party A also needs to strive for resources and management for the project. Don’t think that everything is done by Party B. Party B cannot coordinate internal relations.
3. Project operation and maintenance
- According to the project situation, let Party B reserve a maintenance period of 6-12 months, which is used to fix bugs and ensure normal operation.
- The cost of process requirements adjustment, if there are new features or content beyond the scope of previous requirements, you’d better pay the fee.
- Do a good job in the project handover, codes, documents, etc. must be handed over, including process documents.
That’s about it. In short, it’s not so easy to do a good job in a project, but if you have a sufficient budget, reasonable time, and scientific management, the probability of success is still very high.
