Question Information Systems Management InHouse development

Question - Information Systems Management

In-House development is an often used approach to software acquisition. Using an organization of your choice , clearly illustrate Five (5) challanges that may be encoutered with this approach ? [10 Marks ]

Solution

Lets consider an organisation which needs a mobile apps and sites has to be built according to their requirements means they need to be have an in-house
development, but there may be some serious issues or challenges which may be crop during in-house development.
1. Investment
The cost is the foremeost problem a company may face during in-house development. Right from the beginning of recruiting the developers to setting of the infrastructure, everythings needs to be taken care of. Moreover you may also need to spend over for training of the developers.

2. Recruitment
Recruting the right people for the right job is a difficult task, it requires lots of efforts, human resource as well as an ample time. Recruting good developers for every organisation is a headache.

3. Dependency
Once let a company hires good developers for their job, now it becomes entire dependent on them. The company can face a serious problem if a single person went on leave.

4. Tools and technologies
Although there are multiple tools available in the market but to choose best suitable tool as per the requirement is an another big challenge in an in-house develpment.

5. Maintenance Expenditure
After the project is over the cost of maintenance is an extra burden on th eshoulders of the company.