Category - Project Management

Project management assumes coordinating the work of the team to ensure project tasks completion and goals achievement within the given constraints – in particular, time and budget. Being responsible for leading the whole project, Project Manager is actually a single point of contact for a Customer.

Scrum development as a way of maximizing business value

Classic waterfall software development approach originates in the manufacturing industry and is sequential by its nature. Phases follow one after another: requirements gathering, design, implementation, test, deploy. But currently this process doesn’t meet the needs of modern business. A medium sized project can last for a year, larger projects can take even more time to be completed. In a year original detailed functional requirements are often completely outdated. You can get a product that you don’t need.

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Time tracking systems overview

We’ve already covered various aspects of software development process so far: how to choose a provider, which IP issues to consider, how to motivate your team, what challenges to be aware of when working on international scale… But how to make sure that the whole team is actually working? What if the majority of time is actually spent on non-project related activities (i.e. Facebook, chats with friends, etc.)?

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Motivating an offshore team

Motivating an offshore team is another important aspect of software development outsourcing. Being among the Best Offshore Software Development Companies, we can say that to get a better understanding of motivation aspect, it’s worth to look at it from two different angles – from a perspective of a customer and from a perspective of a Project Manager (PM) of this offshore team.

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Intellectual Property Issues in Software Development

Many people underestimate one of the most important aspects in software development process – Intellectual Property (IP) issues. Failure to pay the necessary attention to these issues may result in serious consequences, such as lawsuits and huge sums for compensation.Read More