Software development legal checklist

Evaluate:

• Existing infrastructure
• Interfacing with other systems
• Mission critical/real time systems
• End-user requirements
• Desired functionality
• Performance criteria
• Regulatory/audit criteria
• Consider proposed revenue model if appropriate

• Development language and tools
• Interfacing with other applications
• Future proofing
• Performance
• Scalability
• Security
• Functional operation
• Maintainability
• User interface (Beware of scope creep)

• Technical specification
• System/program architecture
• Well documented code
• Version control
• Quality assurance
• Error reporting
• User interface

• Functionality
• Destructive testing
• Review output and reporting

You may have to go back to stage 4 once developer testing has been done.

• Has the functional specification been achieved?
• Benchmark the performance
• What happens when you Go Live?

• Training
• Transition
• Data migration
• User documentation
• Configuration documentation

• Refining the software
• Support and maintenance agreements
• Service levels
• Identify future development to meet evolving business needs