Return on Software: Maximizing the Return on Your Software Investment

Define the Selection Criteria

Decisions are often based on more than just one criterion. The decision to select the vendor for an outsourced software development project is likely to be based on cost, delivery date, and the quality of the vendor's work. Not just cost alone. Typically, the more important the decision, the more criteria that need to be considered. You'll need to be careful to identify all criteria that are relevant and be sure that all of those criteria are properly prioritized and considered. Selecting decision criteria is covered in more detail in Chapter 26.

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As much as possible, every criterion used in making a business decision should be expressed in objective terms. Ideally, those terms will be money, but this ...