Software outsourcing has become a big trend in the global IT industry, and the current software contractor is mainly from Europe and America and Japan. my country has a lot of competitive advantages in China, such as Beijing, Shanghai, Dalian, Xi'an, Hangzhou, Hefei and other cities are rapidly developing, and gradually forming an industrial scale, small and medium-sized software companies have established a day. Software Export Alliance. It is quite demanding that the day software outsourcing is not high, but the quality requirements are quite demanding, and there are many examples of outsourcing project failures. The following is a simple discussion on some issues that are common to Japanese software outsourcing, hoping with friends with peers, summing up experience, success.
1, Japanese SE believes that there is a matter of course, many details will not be clearly written in the model book, or the Japanese SE is fully writing sample books in the design of the project in Japan; due to the differences between Chinese and Japanese culture and thinking habits It may cause Chinese software developers to understand these habits. Countermeasures: 1) Accumulation experience, refer to the same system; 2) Take the QA table confirmation.
2, during the nation, for some BUG, there may be such a dispute: Chinese developers say that because the day models are not written, the model book is not meticulous, the Japanese design person said that the Chinese understanding is not Some places should be understood by itself. Countermeasures: 1) First ensure the quality of the natar quality and the nation; 2) Strengthen the communication between the two parties; 3) Strengthen the test.
3. Some projects are designed by the Japanese side, need China Synchronous development, China's developers think about how much it is written on the model book, and does not do it. Countermeasures: 1) Strengthen the exchange of projects, take the initiative to make design thinking to make the Japanese personnel confirm this meant?
4, the Chinese developers are not enough to strategize: 1) Strengthen IT Japanese education, developers to achieve at least the level of understanding Japanese style books; 2) Configure professional Japanese translation assistance.
5. For some of the Chinese developers, some of the details, such as font, color, alignment, and so on, are not rigorous enough. Countermeasures: 1) Strengthen quality awareness, establish development and test specifications.
6. The development process of the development process is attitude towards the development management of Japanese enterprises, paying attention to the rules of the medium, attaches great importance to the standardized management of documents, and strives to achieve "everything will be available"; and Chinese companies have relatively regulated management in documents. Faren; Japanese Enterprise Project Management provides extremely stringent order and style to the process and documentation involved, requiring developers to strictly implement. In terms of specific implementations, Chinese companies often have a strict in accordance with these specifications and requirements. Countermeasures: 1) Fully according to customer requirements, including documents, such as development schedule, test cases, test reports, etc.; 2) Strengthen development process management, standardize development process, introduce CMM mode; 3) Strengthen software quality assurance, such as code review, document review, testing.
7. Developers in Chinese companies prefer technological innovation, and in the development process, some technical issues may lead to different module technology implementations and overall requirements: 1) completely respect the culture of Japanese customers. Management mode, actively proposing technical advice; 2) Developers must strictly follow, developers must be strictly followed, and their own technology is not allowed; 3) Strengthening code review (Code Review) .
9. Some items that need Japanese companies and Chinese companies to participate in design or exchanges: 1) Send SE to project site in Japan; 2) Dispatch China SE to Japan to participate in design, design completion Developing China; 3) Japanese companies send SE to China in short term. 10. Software outsourcing intellectual property protection and customer confidentiality policy strategies: 1) Strictly protect Japanese customers' business secrets and intellectual property; 2) Chinese companies have signed confidential agreements with Japanese companies;
11. Japanese enterprises have a mastery of China's development schedule: 1) According to Japanese enterprise project management requirements report project progress; 2) Delivery is delivered;
12. Remote collaborative development, exchange means and method countermeasures: 1) Real-time message / voice / video exchange, for example: MSN Messenger, Yahoo Messenger2) Video Conference System 3) Remote Control, Remote Assistance, Remote Debug 4) Email, FTP5) Mutual talent dispatch, talent exchange
13. The stability of the Chinese enterprise development team: 1) Stable project traffic, configure fixed development team for specific customers
Author: Hefei Wanlian Information Technology Co., Ltd., R & D center manager, software outsourcing experience of 2 years.
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