How to buy software
How to buy software
A short step by step guide
About the Book
You’ve decided your organisation needs a new technology solution. Whether it’s to help you manage events, content, people, training, projects or whatever… it really doesn’t matter.
What does matter is that you need to make sure the solution you buy is a good fit for your organisation.
This short guide takes you through a simple process based on years of experience on both the customer and supplier-side of things.
It covers both proprietary and open source solutions - the decision-making process is identical for both.
- Step 1: Identify the problem
- Step 2: Identify possible solutions
- Step 3: Make a long list
- Step 4: Create user scenarios
- Step 5: List the requirements - first draft
- Step 6: Make the short list
- Step 7: Competitive dialogue
- Step 8: Negotiation
About the Author
Table of Contents
- Introduction to this guide
- Who is this book for?
- Stakeholder team
- What are we going to cover?
- Series introduction
- Step 1: Identify the problem
- The problem
- Measuring the problem
- The size of the problem
- Problem statement
- Step 2: Identify possible solutions
- Step 3: Make the long list
- Where to look
- Things to consider
- Step 4: Create user scenarios
- Processes
- Users and organisations
- User onboarding
- Access control
- User tasks
- Reports
- Step 5: List the requirements - first draft
- Non-functional requirements
- Functional requirements
- Step 6: Make the short list
- Step 7: Competitive dialogue
- Step 8: Negotiation
- Introduction to this guide
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