Description
The complexity of applications, the sophistication of users, the need for high quality deliverables, the search for high quality development staff and the drive to improve organisational operational efficiency are forcing organisations to adopt strategies that require us to obtain development and maintenance from suppliers both internal and external, far and near. But how effective are in making that decision, evaluating and selecting the delivery party, develop an agreement and manage that relationship in order to achieve the objectives that we have set ourselves.
This workshop will examine practices used for effective Supplier Agreement Management (also known as software acquisition management or vendor management), and provides examples of process assets used in the industry for acquiring software from suppliers (vendors). The workshop content materials reflect concepts and materials from the ISO and IEEE software acquisition standards and guidelines and Software Engineering Institute (SEI) Capability Maturity Model Integrated (CMMI). Its contents and practices can be applied to both internal and external suppliers.
The workshop will enable attendees to :
- Identify an appropriate software acquisition approach for a project
- Draft a template for building a software acquisition management plan
- Develop checklists for determining acquisition strategy
- Evaluating and selecting a supplier
- Monitoring a supplier
- Reviewing supplier performance
- Accepting supplied products
- Transitioning product into use
- Understand and define an Implementation approach
- Understand and define a Change Management approach
- Understand and define a Communication approach
Audience
This course is useful to teams developing the organisation’s supplier agreement (acquisition) process.
Course schedule
Please contact us for the latest course schedule or to organise this course in your organisation