| Project management is vital for a successful software development project and one of its important components is cost management. The estimated scale and the actually developed scale of the Japan software outsourcing projects are important factors for the Japan software outsourcing contractor enterprises to obtain outsourcing business and take reasonable profits. It is difficulty for the Japan software outsourcing contractor enterprises to obtain the project in the fierce competition if the estimated project scale is too big, otherwise the enterprise can not take reasonable profits if the estimated project scale is too small, therefore the enterprise can not grow healthy and sustainably.Competition situation, business marketing strategy, team optimization, process management, this four factors influence the Japanese software outsourcing project high-quality, high efficiency, low cost to complete the projects, making Japan software outsourcing enterprises to cost-effectively control and improve the economic benefits of project that software outsourcing to Japan, and enhancing our software outsourcing company international competitiveness.This paper attempts to summarize the factors that influence the Japan software outsourcing projects cost to quantify factors-software size estimation model derived from the development of the scale, and non-quantifiable factors-including the competitive landscape, the enterprise's business strategy, optimization of the development team, management, optimization of the process. Because of the Japan software outsourcing project has its own specificity, which is mainly reflected in most current software outsourcing business primarily concentrated in the middle and lower reaches of the interior design, detailed design, coding, testing phase, in the software development process will produce a large number of detailed issues identified in the need to spend a lot of time to the party awarding answer questions and to confirm the party awarding, therefore asked the development team has a high Japanese spoken, written communication skills, team optimization will have a greater impact at the cost of project development. At the same time, due to the increasing standardization of software development.for Japanese software projects, management process, management documentation, more stringent requirements. This will greatly increase the cost of software development. Finally, because of the software outsourcing business will give party issuing the contract with the contractor with a huge profits, as well as benefits. While the number of company participate in Japan software outsourcing growing, The company undertake the contractor which Involved in software outsourcing to Japan-China, India, led by the contracting States, contracting companies are increasing, leading to the competition of Japan software outsourcing market increasing. The enterprise's business marketing strategy would also affect the estimate scale.By analyzing the characteristics of the Japan software outsourcing projects and the factors affecting the scale of the projects, especially some non-quantifiable factors, such as operation and management and so on, we try to clarify the various important links for enhancing the core competence of the Japan software outsourcing contractor enterprises, at the same time, try to remind the outsourcer enterprises to inspect not only the competitiveness of the contractors show, but also competitiveness of the contractors behaved actually, in order to avoid the outsourcing projects failure. |
