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Aug 21 2009   10:00AM GMT

An IT guy posted a question on LI… regarding software project development and testing…



Posted by: Jaideep
Software Project, Project Management, software testing, testing, software project management, outsourcing, Project Development

On LinkedIn an IT projects guy posted a question about plus and minus of outsourcing software testing for his software project. After getting 12 replies from various experts he posted his intention behind this question. The intention was to outsource development and testing to two different vendors (‘slicing’ in his terms) so that they maintain a self-check on their performance and resultant.

My next post immediately after his last post regarding his intention was that if he had clarified this right in the beginning at the time of posting his question, he would have got better replies rather than experts posting their views on pros and cons on outsourcing ‘testing’ or not.

Well my last post said there the same. And I added – “if you are slicing – then make 10, 20 or more slices and distribute it among all your vendors. This will also call for more self-checks”

What is your take on this?

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Jun 29 2009   10:00AM GMT

Outsource in a software project without losing control over it



Posted by: Jaideep
Software Project, Project Management, outsourcing, requirement analysis, requirement gathering, requirement freezing, software design, software development, software testing, documentation, project implementation, training, handholding, post implementation, Project Planning, project control, project execution, project component, project phase, project offload, project outsource

We learnt in earlier two posts about the strategic decision of a management to outsource a complete project or part(s) of a project depending on certain factors, and the factors respectively. In this post let us see at the various components of a project that are most widely outsourced or otherwise we can say these are the components of a project which can be outsourced. It is very less often that a project awarded to a company is totally outsourced.

We are talking about outsourcing an activity of a software project. The most important components of a software project can be listed as:
Requirement analysis, gathering and freezing
Design, development and testing
Documentation
Implementation, training and hand-holding
Post implementation support

These can further be broken into various sub-components under each component thereby creating a tree like structure to have a bird’s eye view of any project. Planning and execution for each phase or component comes next with control everywhere.

Outsourcing mainly is the resultant of constraints in an organization.

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