Common Mistakes Companies Make When Deciding to Take a Project In-House

When making important decisions about developing information technology, companies naturally want the best bang for their buck and want to do everything in their power to lower the risks of failure.

Unfortunately, this logic does not always translate into the best results for the company. Often, organizations looking for solutions to improve, streamline, automate or redesign current systems make a decision based on the wrong criteria.

Here are a few common criteria mistakes companies make during the decision process:

1. Putting more weight on the initial cost of a project rather than looking at total cost of ownership implications.
2. Determining the company’s vision based on the project budget, not the other way around.
3. Assuming that the expertise needed to create successful outcomes in building and managing the development of technology are available internally.
4. Believing that hiring contract temporary programmers and developers is an inexpensive and low-risk solution in most cases.
5. Expecting process-oriented teams to deliver a complicated, one time project.
6. Underestimating the value of building requirements using the leveraged expertise of outside professionals.
7. Being willing to spend resources and time on the selection process and little or no time on the actual scope and implications (business case) of the project.

To build anything right requires planning, focus, systems level thinking and experience.

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