Software Development Vendor Contract Considerations
Are you signing a contract to outsource a software development project to a vendor? Ask these questions to make sure you know what you're getting and are getting what you are paying for.
Are you signing a contract to outsource a software development project to a vendor? Ask these questions to make sure you know what you're getting and are getting what you are paying for.
Ensure that your application, network and database is secure from unauthorized user access. Define your security requirements with this specifications form and checklist.
You've prototyped your application's user interface. Now check to see where it is okay and where it needs improvement.
You've tested the new system or application and found some bugs that require the attention of the development team. This form will help you characterize the type, description and disposition of post-testing system change requests.
This form provides a quick and dirty assessment rating for product and development quality.
Need to design any job steps as batch procedures? Here's a comprehensive template to use in specifying how the procedure should be coded and all the pertinent associated information.
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle! It's not just an environmental slogan, it's a project manager's dream. Document standards as to how to reuse development objects and approaches on your project, as in this IEF-based client/server example.
Planning a project necessitates analyzing your client's business and determining system requirements based on business structure. What business areas will be addressed, how do they translate to functionality, and how is that functionality prioritized? Start with an organizational mapping of business areas to functions, like this example from the insurance/finance industry.
Now that you've built your customized application, make sure that the operations staff knows how to keep it running. Provide well-defined, standardized procedures for the system operations staff.
Here's a template you can use to standardize bug or error message reports.
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