How to Select a Software Development Partner: What to Verify Before Signing > 자유게시판

Begin with relevant experience, not the number of logos on the website. Ask for three or four engagements that match your stack, and then ask which engineers actually built it. An honest provider is happy to connect you with the engineers. Vague answers at this stage almost always mean you are talking to a reseller.

The agreement needs a slower read than the pitch. Three clauses do most of the work: intellectual property assignment, non-disclosure, and notice periods and handover. Every artifact has to transfer to you as it is paid for, together with source code, designs and infrastructure as code. Watch for any clause that keeps so-called reusable libraries in the vendor's hands, because that is often the part you cannot replace later.

Find out how the estimate was built. A serious estimate arrives with a written set of assumptions, a breakdown by feature or module and a best case and a worst case. A fixed-price contract only makes sense when the specification is complete; when the scope is still moving the vendor pads the number and you fund the buffer regardless. Time and materials shifts that risk to you, so it needs a sprint cadence, demos and a budget cap.

The delivery process matters more than headcount. Find out how change requests are handled, who signs off on a feature and how quality assurance works. A well-run dedicated team vs project-based outsourcing will be able to walk you through running software rather than status reports. Acceptance criteria in writing stay the practical protection against an argument at delivery time and materials contract.

Before signing, plan for the end of the engagement while the relationship is still good. Insist that the code repository sits in your organisation from the beginning, and that documentation is written as you go rather than left to the end. A partner who is comfortable with this accepts it without argument; resistance at this point tells you quite a lot.