Avoiding
The Software Outsourcing ‘Tarpits’ Workshop
Strategies
for successful vendor management
This course is available at client cites.
Duration: Half-day
Target Audience: Business and systems managers who
are interested in outsourcing software development.
Description:
More and more companies are outsourcing some or all of their
software development efforts to a software development contractor
(vendor). This simple statement raises all sorts of business,
management, and technical issues, which must be properly handled
to avoid disasters.
This talk examines the sub-contracting KPA first and foremost
from the business perspective and, to a much lesser extent,
from the CMM model perspective.It provides a brief overview of the state of software
outsourcing as of 2002.
Objectives:
The
objective is to raise the appropriate questions, not
provide all the answers, in order to avoid the typical
outsourcing problems or 'tarpits'.
Topics:
• Outsourcing - PROs & CONs
• Outsourcing decisions in which software people must
get involved
• The development pie, the SEI, and the SSM KPA
• Interpreting the ‘DoD-flavored’ SW-CMM for
commercial companies
• Overcoming internal obstacles to success
• Vendor (subcontractor) evaluation and selection
• Contract definition (to avoid later problems)
• Managing to improve the "odds".
• Technical and management interfaces
• Vendor maturity and oversight implications
• The view from the other side
• The CMMI view point
• Personnel considerations
• The win-win mentality, and avoiding the ‘tarpits’
