Identifying factors for evaluating software project proposals

Uzoka, Faith Michael E.; Akinnuwesi, Boluwaji A.; Oluwole, Nuga; Adekoya, Adebayo Felix; Egbekunle, Oluwadamilola Y.

doi:10.1504/ijqet.2016.081615

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“…Ukoza et al. () found in their research that vendor support and experience are becoming more important in software selection.…”

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“…Choosing the right software or tools for data dissemination, dashboards, or analysis at higher education institutions (HEIs) requires numerous things and can often be bewildering. The process should be a systematic and objective assessment resulting in a decision to accept or reject (Uzoka, Akinnuwesi, Oluwole, Adekoya, & Ebbekunle, ). Certain pieces are required to make this objective decision including defining needs, collecting business requirements, and understanding the climate of the institution.…”

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“…Because of this heavy intersection, one should be mindful that many IT projects fail; and when they do fail, an HEI should take a methodical approach to evaluate the failure. Many authors argue that the most common failures occur from a lack of clarity of the customer's requirements as they do not reflect business needs, optimistic schedules, inadequate budgets, IT management resource confusion on roles and responsibilities, general miscommunication, and lack of a complete agreement to when projects are done (Arcidiacono, ; Uzoka et al., ). Feddock () argues that the selection process is exhausting and an impetuous decision could lead to the wrong decision being made.…”

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“…Resource constraints come in the form of human, financial, IT support, and learning curves for complicated tools. Software evaluation is an intense activity that could takes months, require multiple interactions by numerous people, and should end with a decision via a specified rubric (Uzoka et al., ). However, institutional culture, technical support, and budget influence decision‐making.…”

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IR and Vendors: Selecting the Right Product

Ferland

Flachbarth

2018

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The market is full of vendors selling products each designed to solve institutional problems. But how does one choose the right tool for their institution and situation? Topics addressed in this chapter include: how to gauge institutional needs, how to evaluate products, and understand the available institutional resources (current and future). The chapter concludes by offering six suggestions for IR offices (and professionals) when they start to consider vendor products.

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2018

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“…Software solutions to organizational needs are achieved through a systematic process of analysis, involving defining alternatives and selecting the best option in terms of software or software project (Hoffer, George and Valacich, 2016). A wrong software system/project selection could adversely affect the organization's ability to function effectively and accomplish its strategic and tactical goals (Rouyendegh and Erkan, 2011;Uzoka et al, 2016). Software evaluation and selection is an intense activity, which could take months and several personnel in planning and deciding on critical concomitants that should go into the decision matrix.…”

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Development and evaluation of an AHP model for software systems selection

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Computing²,

Akinnuwesi

2019

MCDM

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Decision-making in the field of information systems has become more complex due to larger number of alternatives, multiple and sometimes conflicting goals, and an increasingly uncertain environment. Software systems play unique roles in the translation of corporate strategic and tactical plans into actions. We present the results of a study designed to develop and evaluate an Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) model to support decision making in the selection of appropriate software system to meet organizational needs. Our results show the viability of the AHP methodology in software system/project selection, and points to the importance of functionality (35.26%), quality (22.00%) and usability (19.34%) criteria in the overall decision process. Cost and vendor service did not seem to exert significant weight in the decision matrix.

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A framework for software vendor selection by applying Inconsistency and Conflict Removal (ICR) method

Rani,

Mishra,

Omerovic

2023

Int J Syst Assur Eng Manag

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In a software ecosystem, companies’ stakeholders make various decisions and perform various tasks to ensure the strategic and architectural goals of the company. Analyzing vendor capabilities and making decisions to select software vendors requires expert professionals. To analyze vendors’ capabilities and accessing them according to the company’s strategic and architectural goals is presently an ad-hoc and manual process. Presently, there is no systematic process for ‘vendor analysis and selection’ specifically for the software industry. Therefore, this study introduces a novel framework which elaborates all the tasks required for vendor proposal evaluation. It also includes the automatic detection of inconsistencies and conflicts prevalent during this process. A new method called ‘Inconsistency and Conflict Removal (ICR)’ is proposed as part of this framework. ICR automates the process of spotting inconsistencies and conflicts by taking scores of vendor capabilities as input reported by different decision-makers. Further, to illustrate this framework, ‘a case of Hospital’ has been considered. This study provides valuable knowledge that would facilitate organizations in software vendor selection. It will lead to substantial savings in terms of economics, such as actual costs, time, and improved administrative processes.

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Identifying factors for evaluating software project proposals

Cited by 7 publications

References 44 publications

IR and Vendors: Selecting the Right Product

IR and Vendors: Selecting the Right Product

Development and evaluation of an AHP model for software systems selection

A framework for software vendor selection by applying Inconsistency and Conflict Removal (ICR) method

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