Now more and more people realize the important role of software in daily operation and management, so there are more and more outsourcing software projects.
However, as a result, more and more software companies and software teams undertake outsourcing, including many individual SOHO families, which have joined the competition to undertake software, so the competition for software projects is fierce now.
There are still many people who don't even know where to win the project, and always complain that there is no project to do; Some people have good programming skills, but they don't know anything about talking about projects with customers, so they can't get the projects they should get; Although some received the project, they found that they encountered many problems that they had not encountered before in the implementation and development.
As a software developer who has been engaged in outsourcing projects for many years, I want to talk about my experience from the following aspects, hoping to help everyone.
First, where to pick up the project software team or SOHO is most concerned about where to find projects to do, that is, where to find customers with outsourcing needs.
For ordinary people, making friends and then introducing them through acquaintances is the first way to pick up projects, but it requires your friends or acquaintances to have more important management positions in enterprises or companies, which is obviously unrealistic for programmers who can only bury themselves in writing code every day.
So you can't wait for the project to come to you, you should take the initiative to find the project.
Now there are many software outsourcing websites on the Internet, where you can find a lot of information about software outsourcing.
Such as software business networks (bizsofts)
Com), there is a lot of information about software outsourcing.
However, although there are many projects outsourced here every day, the competition is fierce.
Generally, there will be countless competitors within one day after an outsourcing message is sent out, so it is very important to get in touch with customers at the first time.
Because customers are generally preconceived, generally speaking, if the first person who talks about the project is satisfied, he will not consider other competitors, so you should always go to the website to see what the latest projects are and get in touch with the project contractor immediately.
Other outsourcing channels, such as Software Outsourcing Network, Wikipedia, China Software Network and CSDN, also have a lot of outsourcing information. You can go up and have a look for yourself.
The most important step in accepting a project is to talk to the customer about the requirements.
The customer's demand for software is the basis of project planning and implementation, so when talking about the demand with the customer, we must let the user explain all the ideas as clearly as possible and list all the requirements.
At this time, don't be afraid to "seduce" the potential needs of customers and increase the workload of design and development.
Instead, customers should be directly and explicitly asked to list the requirements of the project one by one.
At this time, let's put aside the organizational inductive analysis and accurately record the most primitive and complete needs of users with paper and pen.
If the project is launched in a hurry without fully understanding the needs of customers, unexpected changes will occur at any time, from delaying the project or exceeding the budget to completely knocking down the completed software.
Therefore, before the implementation of the project, it is necessary to deeply understand and tap the customer's needs, repeatedly discuss some unclear needs with the owner, and stipulate the handling methods of demand changes during the implementation of the project to form the final demand of the project.
In the demand analysis stage, the contractor first carefully analyzes the employer's demand, and then collects the complete customer demand through business modeling, talks, questionnaires and demand meetings. , and form a document, and then through repeated processes such as customer discussion, customer review, and file modification.
One thing to note is that even if the two sides are very congenial, they must be meticulous and accurate to every inseparable software function when discussing requirements.