Onboard the team and facilitate role distribution
Once you have outlined major project requirements and budgeting matters, start onboarding your team. Usually, onboarding extends throughout the entire phase of establishing the processes. Provide the specialists with an overview of the project scope and its most critical factors.
At this point, much responsibility lies on a solutions architect and a project manager. A solutions architect defines software architecture, solution design, and tech stack and, often, provides a clear project roadmap allowing the team to meet all your requirements. Meanwhile, a project manager distributes roles and responsibilities among team members, sets deadlines for them, and ensures that each specialist has all the required resources. Your collaboration with a project manager helps making this process much smoother, as this allows the team to comprehend your vision better and avoid misunderstandings.
Prepare all the documentation
Prepare all the documents required for the project needs. Start with legal documents, such as SOW, NDA, MSA. One of the most crucial documents is a statement of work (SOW) that clearly defines team composition and roles, promotion policies, travel expenses, vacation policies, team availability, etc. An NDA (non-disclosure agreement) defines the parts of the project that are confidential and outlines knowledge or information that both you and your vendor can share with one another or external parties for certain purposes. The violation of an NDA can lead to severe legal measures. Finally, a master service agreement (MSA) is another crucial legal document in which both you and your vendor agree to most of the terms that will govern all the future activities and agreements.
Work-related documentation is also crucial. Make sure to prepare the documents that outline project requirements, workflows, and milestones in detail. Also, define and document software development KPIs for a team. This part will be essential for monitoring and evaluating your team’s performance.
Select the project management methodology
Different projects require different project management methodologies. The most common approach to managing a .NET development project is agile, which is based on iterations.
While you can delegate the choice of a project management methodology to your dedicated team, you still need to approve the project management approach because this decision defines your involvement and many other critical project features.
Create a clear communication strategy
Define the flow and frequency of meetings with your .NET product development team, schedule some regular meetings (for example, planning, demo etc.). You should understand the frequency of releases, define clear auditing policies, communicate with a project manager or, if needed, team members on scheduled meetings. Apart from meetings, define the communication channels.
Depending on your corporate toolset, you can communicate with your team in either Google Workspace, Microsoft Teams, or any other solution. Other popular solutions for professional communication are Slack, primarily used for convenient chatting, and Zoom, a popular video tool for online meetings. You can add outsourced .NET software developers to your existing corporate infrastructure or create new corporate accounts for the dedicated team.
Establish task execution tracking
Define a clear approach to managing and tracking tasks. A reliable solution would be creating a board with a task management solution, such as Jira, Trello, or Confluence. All these solutions offer functionality for assigning and re-assigning tasks, setting deadlines, attaching files, and changing task statuses and priorities. As a result, you will constantly be in control of all the assignments that your .NET product development team members receive, even if it goes about outsourcing .NET development.
Define risk and security management practices
Deal with risks in advance. To achieve excellence in risk management, anticipate possible technical complexities, changes in work scope, and resource allocation issues and plan risk response strategies in advance. Also, pay much attention to security concerns. While .NET ensures excellent security, developers should follow the best security practices to mitigate the threats. In particular, ASP.NET.Core provides a robust set of tools and scripts for mitigating cross-site scripting attacks, SQL injections, and open redirect attacks.
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