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Entrepreneur Tips For Outsourcing Software

Posted on January 26, 2008 | Filed Under Business Management, Internet Trends, Productivity 

The software business is an incredibly lucrative
business… in fact one of the largest companies in the
world has made most of its profit purely from selling
software. Even though as an entrepreneur or internet
marketer delving into this business seems like a good idea
it has a lot of risk especially when using outside or third
party programmers. The good news is by keeping a few golden
rules in mind you can avoid the pitfalls and make sure your
outsourced programming projects can done on time and with
minimal bugs.

Get Some Testers
Anyone who has been writing software knows the importance
of testing. Call up the help from your mailing list and ask
some of them to be beta testers in return for feedback and
a free copy of the program. It is important to use end
users of the product because they always seem to find a way
to use your program in ways never thought possible.

Scope Creep
Scope creep or feature creep has doomed or delayed
countless projects. Don’t let it start finding its way into
yours. The best way to combat feature creep is to draft out
a solid set of specifications and features that the
software must have before having a single line of code
written. Then once you have a set of agreed upon specs do
not change them until the program is done, tested and
working. The time for adding features is the next release.

Scrub Data
If your programs have data entry fields never anticipate
them entering anything in correctly. Dates, numbers, even
text fields all need to be validated, verified and scrubbed
when the enter key is pressed or the button is clicked.
Never leave an entry field unchecked!

Out of all these I think most software stumbles by allowing
feature creep. If you’re going to solicit user feedback for
enhancements then instead of adding all of them pick the
top one or two items to implement. Another time this often
occurs in is during beta testing, when testing the software
don’t try to incorporate any new features into the software
even though one user will swear up and down they have to
have feature x, save those enhancements for the next
product revision cycle.

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