Managing instructional software acquisition
Onur Demirörs, E. Demirors, Ayça Tarhan · Software Process Improvement and Practice · 2001
Abstract Managing acquisition and development efforts of contracted software is hard work for many organisations which require high‐quality products to be produced. Mature supplier processes best work with mature acquisition processes which are able to appropriately plan, track and evaluate the work of the supplier. However, acquirer organisations might not always be that mature, so selecting and managing the best‐fit suppliers becomes rather difficult. This paper introduces a study performed to overcome this difficulty for the Ministry of National Education (MONE) of Turkey. The first phase of the study includes defining the evaluation criteria for pre‐qualification of software development companies, and the second phase includes defining the basic instructional software development process as well as the standards for the deliverables of the process. The paper also identifies the effort required by the Ministry for evaluating and managing the pre‐qualification and development work in practice. Copyright © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.