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IT Project Management

The primary challenge of project management is to achieve all of the project goals and objectives while adhering to classic project constraints—usually scope, quality, time and budget. The secondary—and more ambitious—challenge is to optimize the allocation and integration of inputs necessary to meet pre-defined objectives.

Unlike traditional project management, where a heavyweight, predictive methodology such as the waterfall model is often employed, At Opensource, we approach tends toward lightweight, adaptive models such as SCRUM, XP and DSDM. We not only ensure implementing a successful development model, but also see that each phase of development is successful. We combine our agile process with the Project management body of Knowledge standard to ensure that all projects are delivered with specified time, scope, budget and quality.

Business and Requirment Analysis

Well-defined, managed and communicated requirements, including business objectives, customer needs, regulations, designs and technical specifications, are the cornerstone of all successful projects because they express your objectives. Whether you are producing a product, an application, a system, or a service, requirements drive the development process.

The requirements definition and requirements management process isn't just a one-off, upfront step in the project lifecycle. Requirements form the thread that connects all the disciplines of development and quality assurance together around common objectives. At opensource technologies, we partner with our client through out the entire requirement management process below;

• Requirements elicitation (requirements capture)
• Requirements definition
• Requirements validation
• Requirements analysis
• Requirements modeling
• Requirements management
• Requirements traceability
• Requirements-based testing

Software Quality Assurance & Testing

Cost and performance is a key consideration factor of every management before investing in any technology, product or innovation that is expected to boost image, producttivity and ROI of any organization otherwise the negative effect of could lead to un-repairable damage.

Latent bugs and difficulty in maintaining complex code, not only slow development programs and increase costs, but can dramatically affect business competitiveness by delaying the introduction of new products and services or harming hard-won reputations.

At Opensource Technologies, we help clients define the required quality level to be attained and the acceptance tests to be performed by contractors and ensure that contractors gain credibility by demonstrating the quality of their software.

Outsourcing

Offshore Software Outsourcing has proved to be a deciding factor for companies that offer cost and quality edge in a competitive market. The success of Offshore Outsourcing relies on the word “customer satisfaction”. Offshore Software Outsourcing is much about building relationships based on trust, and mutual respect. Opensource Technologies, provides reliable, quality, and value added services to focus on your core business needs so that you are assured that a dedicated offshore outsourcing and software outsourcing team is working for you.

We provides a wide range of offshore IT outsourcing services and innovative solutions with primary focus on web applications and web services. Our team combines the efforts of keen experts in Web portals, online communities and ecommerce software development. Since we pace up-to-date with the cutting-edge IT trends we have gained considerable knowledge base in such domains as .NET and Java software development. Our outsourcing services is built on;

• High quality software. Being committed to providing quality, security and privacy to every customer we ensure a thorough QA is performed by our QA team.
• Individual approach. To find the most cost-effective solution for every particular customer we are trying to use non-trivial approach during the entire software development cycle. This includes advisory and after-development backing.
• Adaptable development teams. Our software development teams are flexible and can be resized and readjusted anytime upon customer's request.
• Rich experience. We have a team of software engineers with over solid custom software development and software testing projects expeirence.
• Highly manageable processes. Our clients can control the project implementation at any stage.
• Flexible payment models. We offer three basic business models for offshore software development - fixed cost, time and material or dedicated team - that can be easily combined or modified at any stage of cooperation dependant on our customer suggestions.

Research and Development
We handle proper identification of S&T and Research as well as management processes, including negotiations, project management and business meetings. We also handle evaluation of unique technologies and services combined with research advisory services.

We provide elaborate demonstrations of proposed user interfaces, architecture and system design to solve specific business problems. Prototypes can serve as groundwork for implementation of a complete and scalable solution. It could also be utilized for building business cases for the proposed solution.

We have commenced the establishement of a software academy in partnership with other technology firms in Nigeria and diaspora to enhance our Research and Development services.

Training and Consultancy

We provide consulting service in the Business processes analysis, software solutions, information technologies, offshore IT outsourcing and software development consulting. We not only consult but also recommend and provide professional training where necessary for our customers in areas where such skill is lacking.

We give specialised Training for developing both Windows and Web-based applications.  We use mainly industry-standard Microsoft products, such as Visual Studio .net, Netbeans for Java, Access, SQL Server, Oracle, etc.