Application Development Consulting Services: A Buyer's Decision Guide
Most application development consulting engagements do not fail because the delivery team lacked technical skill. They fail because the scope, governance, and post-launch ownership boundaries were never written down before build work started. Buyers enter evaluations focused on technology fit and capability lists. The questions that actually predict engagement success are different ones: whether the firm produces a formal discovery artifact, whether change requests are priced and approved before they are built, and whether maintenance obligations are disclosed in the SOW rather than surfaced as a surprise after go-live. ...