Rules to be respected!

List contractual engagements
Which are the deadlines, average the techniques and human placed at your disposal, the conditions of guarantees?

Ask for the handing-over of a quality plan
The existence of a quality plan is a condition necessary and a good indicator of quality of the software firm. If no document of this type is available. Go your way. It must be given at the same time as the response to the invitation to tender and must indicate the broad outline of the realization of the project.

Tools of follow-up
To avoid the “holes” in medium of service, obtain the installation of Extranet allowing you to follow planning. If not, as soon as last the phases of analysis and drafting of the schedule of conditions, you are likely to see disappearing your person receiving benefits during all the phase from development!
Is the software firm able to carry out the project in iterative mode (progression by stage)? If so, you are vis-a-vis a person receiving benefits knowing to show flexibility.

References
Ask the co-ordinates of the customers of the SSI and contact them! Nothing replaces the opinion of those which, like you, need to call upon these companies. You also with the mouth with ear trust!

Which team for my project?
Ask the CV of the people charged with your file! It is useful to validate the level of experiment and certification on technologies and methods used.

The availability of your in-house teams
To entrust the development of an application to a software firm, implies all the same the availability of an in-house team (users, data processing specialists). Ask your person receiving benefits to evaluate this load. The provided answer is very often revealing experiment “project” of the person receiving benefits!

Be demanding with yourself
At all events, it is important to be also demanding with yourself in your relation with a software firm. Because, which seems obvious to you, is not it inevitably for the others. Also the drafting of the schedule of conditions which you will give to your person receiving benefits must be clear, lay down precise objectives (time, costs.) and answer all the questions which the project implies. Also, it matters that you:
- described the existing situation (materials and applications),
- defined the objectives of the project. With what that is used?
- fixed the technical constraints to ensure you of the good technical compatibility of the applications to be developed,
- explain the functional objectives of the product, while remaining precise (include all; technical information, diagrams, and other graphs necessary, and even a glossary of the narrower terms of your trade association),
- establish a precise planning (development, test, installation),
- anticipate the future evolutions of your information processing system so that the developed product remains compatible,
- think of the aspect maintenance and SAV,
- make validate this schedule of conditions by your Direction, because it engages your company and is a reference document in the event of litigation.

The team i-Nova C&D.