Preproject Process - Contract Review

• Published in: Software Quality - Concepts and Practice p. 1
• Main Author: Galin Daniel
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Hoboken, NJ, USA John Wiley & Sons 2018; John Wiley & Sons, Inc
• Subjects: contract draft; contract reviews; customer-supplier relationship; preproject process; Software Engineering; software quality assurance; Software Testing & Verification
• ISBN: 1119134498; 9781119134497
• DOI: 10.1002/9781119134527.ch8

This chapter presents a mini case that demonstrates the devastating results of a contract not thoroughly examined by the supplier, causing substantial losses to the supplier and at least inconveniences to the acquirer, due to delays of project completion. The contract review process begins with reviewing the proposal draft, and later, in the second stage, the contract draft is reviewed. The role of the software quality assurance (SQA) function is major in carrying out contract reviews. The objective of the proposal draft review is to make sure that the following activities were satisfactorily carried out by the proposal team. The chapter refers to who performs the contract review and implementation of a contract review for a major proposal. Customer‐supplier relationship and contract review that proves to be fruitful for external projects should be applied to internal projects as well.