Inhouse development of software

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Your organisation has planned to purchase a third party tool for time sheet entry. But there is opposition from the project leaders that there are people with skills to develop the product in house. Your boss asked for your advice. As a quality  analyst how will you decide on whether to purchase or develop in house.

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Does anyone have an answer

Does anyone have an answer for this?

Submitted by unna on September 4, 2006 - 11:54pm.
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You basically have to do a

You basically have to do a cost benifit analysis or feasibility analysis on which will be more benifitial for company in long run.

 In house development most times is expensive and additonal overhead for management to recruit maintainence staff.

 You will have to make some assumptions to answer this questions... like external software is expensive to start with , however it will pay off eventually.

 Also you will have to mention few points similar to Tool deployment given in CBOK

Submitted by admin on September 5, 2006 - 5:30am.

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