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Software Acquisition and Systems Integration Contracts Legal and Management Techniques to Maximize Success and Minimize Risk Summary: This one-day management seminar includes presentation and roundtable discussions on how to reduce the risk associated with large, mission-critical, system integration projects, and how to maximize the return for the substantial investments they require. The presentations describe methods for line and project managers to use in the early phases of system integration project planning to recognize and avoid the most common risk and cost escalators. The material is focused on the specific techniques of:
Problem Statement: Operations and project managers are required to work with an assortment of software vendors, contractors, and consultants to implement mission-critical information systems. In such a heterogeneous project environment, working relationships, levels of performance, and service quality standards are difficult to establish and enforce. As a result, software and systems integration projects often cost substantially more than planned and deliver substantially less function than promised. Recent, well-publicized project failures highlight the imperfect state of the art in delivering such large projects at all, much less on time and on budget. Course Format: The course consists of four ninety-minute units of informal lecture combined with roundtable discussions. Two instructors, the first an attorney and software acquisition contracts expert and the second an experienced software IV&V engineer, present the lecture materials and discuss case-studies where the techniques can be used. Participants are strongly encouraged to describe their own past, current, and planned projects so that the group can apply the techniques to them. The four course units include:
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