Software development process is a really complicated and long-lasting procedure. People think that technical expertise is the only one thing that is necessary for software development process and for its successful ending. However, that is not really true. If you have your own company and you want to get profit from it and, consequently, to make it successful, you should know the ways where success come from.

There are 6 elements of profitable software development business. The first is quality assurance. It is vitally important to have quality assurance for software development process. It is necessary to provide quality assurance of full-cycle for different projects. The experience of previous companies shows us that it is better to provide ISO 9000 principles of quality assurance, that will help you to follow the most important and the most demanding business principles and requirements. It will also help you to give almost 3-month warranty and solve any problems within 3-month term of software acceptance. You may also continue the warranty term and support the system for different terms of using.

The second element is requiremets analysis. It is also necessary to follow because requirements analysis is the element which is the second after quality assurance according to importance for business and it is basically not only for software development process. Understanding of your needs will help you to built successful system which will help you to make the business more efficient.

Latest technologies and the knowledge of it is the third element of efficient process. It will help you to find the individual approach for every client and, consequently, to find the best solution for them.

Extensive experience is also one of the most important parts of software development process. It would be better to have vast experience in different software development projects in various fields of activity.

Management is the fourth important element, because the success of the process depends on the successful management. It must include control of the progress, assignment of the work and resources, outworking of communication process between different groups, plan of your project, schedule, status reports and delivery etc.

The fifth element is the communication with the client. The connection between you and client will help you to understand the needs of the client, time frames and requirements. It would be better if you organic your feedback within one day term. It will also help you to show the progress of your project and to get some notes.

So, you can see that all five elements of successful software development process from quality assurance to communication have great importance for efficiency of your project. You may follow this parts or you may try to create your own rules of successful process that will help you to make the business. Anyway, it is necessary to have fixed scheme of project building, even if it has not Quality Assurance or Expert Management, but it helps you, use it to make software development process successful.

Victoria Malinovskaya, I work for US-based offshore outsourcing
software development company, TechnoPark Corp.
http://www.technoparkcorp.com