Authors:
Noriko Hanakawa
1
and
Masaki Obana
2
Affiliations:
1
Information management department, Hannan University, Japan
;
2
Department of Information Science and Technolog, Osaka Institute of Technology, Japan
Keyword(s):
Software Process, Competitive Bidding, Top Level Process, Requirement Analysis, System Design.
Abstract:
Recently, large-scale system development is ordered through competitive bidding in various computer
system. If competitive bidding runs in order to choose a best system proposal, development process is
greatly different from conventional software development process of the conventional software engineering.
Before developers and customers sign a contract document, requirement analysis and system design
activities are started. Of course, the activities are unpaid work because developers do not yet sign the
contract with customers. Therefore, we discussed software development business model with competitive
bidding. Problems in real competitive bidding are (1) unpaid work such as requirement analysis, (2) judging
a best system proposal by customers, (3) budget and schedule are determined before requirement analysis
activities. Based on the problems, we show a revised process of top level activities of planning phase and
competitive phase for developers’ profit and customers’ high satis
faction.
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