Software acquisition management is an activity that involves more than just selecting a vendor and waiting for the final delivery date. It is necessary to know how to make a correct assessment of the supplier based on well-defined criteria, to have a clear process for requesting proposals, and to have clear contractual requirements that safeguard the risk of the contracting project in its most important aspects: cost, scope, deadline, and quality.

The course is intended for managers or team members of software projects who wish to acquire knowledge and techniques for effective acquisition management of software projects. It does not require initial graduate training.

This course offers a practical perspective of software acquisition management, based on the best global models (CMMI for acquisition, PMBOK and ITIL) and on real business case studies. It enables you to increase your success in managing software acquisitions by fostering partner relationships with suppliers with the application of proven project management and software quality techniques.

Knowledge of general information systems concepts.

• Life cycle of an acquisition project;
• Procurement planning;
• Software project specifications (Request For Proposal);
• Requirements definition (scope) and change management;
• Request process;
• Monitoring and control of software acquisition projects;
• Management of communication and off shore projects;
• Transition to services;
• Closing a procurement project;
• Preparation of a requirements document and software specifications;
• Multi-criteria evaluation of a procurement process;
• Preparation of a communication plan and an accompanying report.

Pedro Castro Henriques is the CEO and co-founder of Strongstep - Innovation in Software Quality. He was responsible for the IT department at ERS - National Health Regulation Entity in Portugal, where he managed the national supervision system of health entities and, before that, he worked at Ericsson (Q-Labs) in global process improvement and technology transfer support programs.

He has strong experience in process improvement and implementation and certification in software development quality (CMMI, ITMARK, AGILE, ASPICE, Industry 4.0, SCRUM, TSP / PSP) and information security (Iso27001, GDPR & DPO), having worked for 15 years as an executive and board member in the consulting and technology business.

Pedro is a software engineering consultant and has worked in 12 countries (Europe, Africa and America) in process, tool and organization improvement, including consulting in software engineering, business strategy and information systems.