Every successful project starts with two things: a project idea and an adequate budget. The typical costs of the development team are related to the recruitment process, payroll, hardware and licenses, of course, the office space, sick leaves, holidays and perks. Learn how you can reduce cost and save your software project budget. More resources on: rightinformation.com

1. Tips to save
your software
project budget

2. Let’s start from the beginning and define what
components determine your project budget?
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STAFF EXPENCES HARDWARE EXPENSES SOFTWARE EXPENSES PROJECT KICKOFF
Recruiting costs
In-house team
External
resources
Servers
Computer
equipment
Network
infrastructure
Licences and
subscriptions
Communication
tools
Travel expenses
Quality assurance
Consulting
service
Scoping session

3. Every successful project starts with two things:
a project idea and an adequate budget.
The typical costs of the development team are related to the recruitment process, payroll,
hardware and licenses, of course the office space, sick leaves, holidays and perks.
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4. There are 4 tips
that can help you
save your project budget.

5. Define better requirements
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People will spend less time on discussions, meetings and evaluation of tasks when you will
define them well. It doesn’t mean you have to dive into the code, functions and methods and
describe how to develop something you need. At this step it is important to define:
User needs (expected behaviour and flow)
Technology limitations (and how you will accept the work)
Business value

6. Involve QA as soon as possible
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Why you should focus on QA and why it’s important? Because developers don’t focus 50%
of their time on feedback and bug fixing if the code is tested well. They can then
develop the new code and solve new tasks.
Define the most important test cases along with the test data (the input that you use to say
it works). There is no one the best QA process, because there is no just one development
process. Find the sweet spot and moment when would be the best to test resolved tasks.

7. Prioritize and plan right features
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Lack of proper planning and frequent changes in the roadmap (pivots) makes the
development harder because developers works on assumptions you provide.
Even if there is 463 of your product backlog items and all of them are extremely important,
you can use MoSCoW method to prioritize the work:

8. Outsource the work
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Hire the augmented team to reduce recruitment costs and all office-related spendings.
Contracts are very often flexible and allow to change the team composition by the time, and
so you can reduce team when there is not much work while having the ability to increase
quickly when it's needed. Other benefits of team augmentation are that you don't need to
spend days on interviews. The most important is to find the right development partner and
share the expectations you can easily rely on.
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9. Project-based approach
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Once you find the right development partner you can expect more responsibility on the
delivery in case you go for project-based approach sometime. With project-based approach,
the idea for outsourcing not the whole development but just part of the work, also is a good
idea when you have:
Lack of skills or knowledge on you end. In that case augmented team can bring value to
architecture design, tasks where your team is struggling.
Small and simple tasks that someone else can do, while your team focus on what’s the most
important for your organization and solution.
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