Save time, empower your teams and effectively upgrade your processes with access to this practical Offshore Software Development Toolkit and guide. Address common challenges with best-practice templates, step-by-step work plans and maturity diagnostics for any Offshore Software Development related project.
Download the Toolkit and in Three Steps you will be guided from idea to implementation results.
The Toolkit contains the following practical and powerful enablers with new and updated Offshore Software Development specific requirements:
STEP 1: Get your bearings
Start with...
- The latest quick edition of the Offshore Software Development Self Assessment book in PDF containing 49 requirements to perform a quickscan, get an overview and share with stakeholders.
Organized in a data driven improvement cycle RDMAICS (Recognize, Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, Control and Sustain), check the…
- Example pre-filled Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard to get familiar with results generation
Then find your goals...
STEP 2: Set concrete goals, tasks, dates and numbers you can track
Featuring 990 new and updated case-based questions, organized into seven core areas of process design, this Self-Assessment will help you identify areas in which Offshore Software Development improvements can be made.
Examples; 10 of the 990 standard requirements:
- What are the critical success factors that significantly contribute in the success of offshore information systems development projects in small and medium software development firms?
- Does your enterprise now depend on or take advantage of offshore software development and / or support resources, or do you anticipate using offshore resources in the future?
- Does your enterprise now depend on or take advantage of offshore software development and/or support resources, or do you anticipate using offshore resources in the future?
- Does the offshore service provider have procurement and financial responsibility for obtaining certain software and hardware as required for service delivery?
- What knowledge management strategies can organizations employ to ensure the success of offshore outsourced software development initiatives?
- How should a distributed offshore software development project be coordinated, in order to increase the chance on a successful project?
- What are your security and confidentiality guidelines in protecting your clients IP, source codes, and/or other sensitive information?
- What impact does operational risk occurrence have in offshore application development projects and in what way can it be mitigated?
- What does the data tell us about the size and impact of offshoring in countries other than india that do software work for export?
- How can the negative influence of all the different distances on the success of offshore development projects be reduced?
Complete the self assessment, on your own or with a team in a workshop setting. Use the workbook together with the self assessment requirements spreadsheet:
- The workbook is the latest in-depth complete edition of the Offshore Software Development book in PDF containing 990 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...
Your Offshore Software Development self-assessment dashboard which gives you your dynamically prioritized projects-ready tool and shows your organization exactly what to do next:
- The Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard; with the Offshore Software Development Self-Assessment and Scorecard you will develop a clear picture of which Offshore Software Development areas need attention, which requirements you should focus on and who will be responsible for them:
- Shows your organization instant insight in areas for improvement: Auto generates reports, radar chart for maturity assessment, insights per process and participant and bespoke, ready to use, RACI Matrix
- Gives you a professional Dashboard to guide and perform a thorough Offshore Software Development Self-Assessment
- Is secure: Ensures offline data protection of your Self-Assessment results
- Dynamically prioritized projects-ready RACI Matrix shows your organization exactly what to do next:
STEP 3: Implement, Track, follow up and revise strategy
The outcomes of STEP 2, the self assessment, are the inputs for STEP 3; Start and manage Offshore Software Development projects with the 62 implementation resources:
- 62 step-by-step Offshore Software Development Project Management Form Templates covering over 1500 Offshore Software Development project requirements and success criteria:
Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:
- Cost Management Plan: Are all payments made according to the contract(s)?
- Change Management Plan: Will the readiness criteria be met prior to the training roll out?
- Cost Management Plan: Responsibilities â what is the split of responsibilities between the owner and contractors?
- Stakeholder Analysis Matrix: Who will promote/support the Offshore Software Development project, provided that they are involved?
- Activity Duration Estimates: Do you think many information technology professionals have experience writing RFPs and evaluating proposals for information technology Offshore Software Development projects?
- Planning Process Group: How well did the chosen processes fit the needs of the Offshore Software Development project?
- Probability and Impact Assessment: Can it be enlarged by drawing people from other areas of your organization?
- Procurement Management Plan: Are governance roles and responsibilities documented?
- Stakeholder Management Plan: Are internal Offshore Software Development project status meetings held at reasonable intervals?
- Procurement Management Plan: Is an industry recognized mechanized support tool(s) being used for Offshore Software Development project scheduling & tracking?
Step-by-step and complete Offshore Software Development Project Management Forms and Templates including check box criteria and templates.
1.0 Initiating Process Group:
- 1.1 Offshore Software Development project Charter
- 1.2 Stakeholder Register
- 1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix
2.0 Planning Process Group:
- 2.1 Offshore Software Development project Management Plan
- 2.2 Scope Management Plan
- 2.3 Requirements Management Plan
- 2.4 Requirements Documentation
- 2.5 Requirements Traceability Matrix
- 2.6 Offshore Software Development project Scope Statement
- 2.7 Assumption and Constraint Log
- 2.8 Work Breakdown Structure
- 2.9 WBS Dictionary
- 2.10 Schedule Management Plan
- 2.11 Activity List
- 2.12 Activity Attributes
- 2.13 Milestone List
- 2.14 Network Diagram
- 2.15 Activity Resource Requirements
- 2.16 Resource Breakdown Structure
- 2.17 Activity Duration Estimates
- 2.18 Duration Estimating Worksheet
- 2.19 Offshore Software Development project Schedule
- 2.20 Cost Management Plan
- 2.21 Activity Cost Estimates
- 2.22 Cost Estimating Worksheet
- 2.23 Cost Baseline
- 2.24 Quality Management Plan
- 2.25 Quality Metrics
- 2.26 Process Improvement Plan
- 2.27 Responsibility Assignment Matrix
- 2.28 Roles and Responsibilities
- 2.29 Human Resource Management Plan
- 2.30 Communications Management Plan
- 2.31 Risk Management Plan
- 2.32 Risk Register
- 2.33 Probability and Impact Assessment
- 2.34 Probability and Impact Matrix
- 2.35 Risk Data Sheet
- 2.36 Procurement Management Plan
- 2.37 Source Selection Criteria
- 2.38 Stakeholder Management Plan
- 2.39 Change Management Plan
3.0 Executing Process Group:
- 3.1 Team Member Status Report
- 3.2 Change Request
- 3.3 Change Log
- 3.4 Decision Log
- 3.5 Quality Audit
- 3.6 Team Directory
- 3.7 Team Operating Agreement
- 3.8 Team Performance Assessment
- 3.9 Team Member Performance Assessment
- 3.10 Issue Log
4.0 Monitoring and Controlling Process Group:
- 4.1 Offshore Software Development project Performance Report
- 4.2 Variance Analysis
- 4.3 Earned Value Status
- 4.4 Risk Audit
- 4.5 Contractor Status Report
- 4.6 Formal Acceptance
5.0 Closing Process Group:
- 5.1 Procurement Audit
- 5.2 Contract Close-Out
- 5.3 Offshore Software Development project or Phase Close-Out
- 5.4 Lessons Learned
Results
With this Three Step process you will have all the tools you need for any Offshore Software Development project with this in-depth Offshore Software Development Toolkit.
In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:
- Diagnose Offshore Software Development projects, initiatives, organizations, businesses and processes using accepted diagnostic standards and practices
- Implement evidence-based best practice strategies aligned with overall goals
- Integrate recent advances in Offshore Software Development and put process design strategies into practice according to best practice guidelines
Defining, designing, creating, and implementing a process to solve a business challenge or meet a business objective is the most valuable role; In EVERY company, organization and department.
Unless you are talking a one-time, single-use project within a business, there should be a process. Whether that process is managed and implemented by humans, AI, or a combination of the two, it needs to be designed by someone with a complex enough perspective to ask the right questions. Someone capable of asking the right questions and step back and say, 'What are we really trying to accomplish here? And is there a different way to look at it?'
This Toolkit empowers people to do just that - whether their title is entrepreneur, manager, consultant, (Vice-)President, CxO etc... - they are the people who rule the future. They are the person who asks the right questions to make Offshore Software Development investments work better.
This Offshore Software Development All-Inclusive Toolkit enables You to be that person.
Includes lifetime updates
Every self assessment comes with Lifetime Updates and Lifetime Free Updated Books. Lifetime Updates is an industry-first feature which allows you to receive verified self assessment updates, ensuring you always have the most accurate information at your fingertips.
