Offshore Project Management

Every project is different, and our model is adapted to meet the specific needs of the type of project and delivery mechanism employed. A dedicated onshore team reviews the quality of the work produced and the specifications sent to the offshore team. This ensures the quality of the product supplied, and the development process.

We are able to deliver and document our projects in a variety of European languages. Applications that need to be deployed across multiple locations requiring screens and reports in more than one language can easily be catered for you.

Generally, there are two approaches that can be taken to project management today. The traditional approach identifies a sequence of steps to be completed. This contrasts with the agile software development approach in which the project is seen as relatively small tasks rather than a complete process. The objective of this approach is to impose as little overhead as possible in the form of rationale, justification, documentation, reporting, meetings, and permission. This approach may also be called the "spiral" approach, since completion of one of the small tasks leads to the beginning of the next. Advanced approaches to agile project management, applicable not only to software development but to any area, utilize the principles of human interaction management to deal with the complexities of human collaboration.

The traditional approach

In the traditional approach, we can distinguish five components of a project:

1. project initiation
2. project planning
3. project production
4. project monitoring
5. project completion

Project management tries to gain control over five variables:

• time
• cost
• quality
• scope
• risk

Three of these variables can be given by the customers. The values of the remaining variables are then set by project management, based on solid estimation techniques. The final values are agreed upon in a negotiation process between project management and the customer.

To keep control over the project from the beginning all the way to its natural conclusion, a project manager uses a number of techniques: project planning, earned value, risk management, scheduling, process improvement.

Project Management steps

Project Management includes five stages:

1. Requirements analysis
2. Engineering and Design
3. Procurement
4. Development
5. Maintenance