Outsourcing Due Diligence: A 5-Point Checklist

Swati Sharma
classic-informatics
1 min readNov 8, 2019

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outsourcing due diligence

When you are outsourcing development, you are trusting another web development company with your organization’s intellectual property, its digital footprints, and more importantly its growth, it is imperative that you pay full heed to the former’s working culture, IT capabilities, ancestry, risks, and legalities surrounding its jurisdiction. This is why you need to perform due diligence in outsourcing!

Due diligence of the outsourcing requirement process, and most importantly the outsourcing company and the dedicated team, is also vital for outsourcing success. And by due diligence, we are not simply talking about a surface analysis of the firm you are outsourcing web development, mobile app development, or any other IT services to. It would mean a complete legal inspection of the company you are trusting your company with. To help you out, we have created an outsourcing due diligence checklist that you can follow.

#1 RFP For The Outsourcing Service Provider

#2 Company’s Pedigree & Portfolio

#3 The Infrastructural & IT Capabilities

#4 Assessing The Risks Associated With Outsourcing

#5 Legal Agreements & Contract Obligations

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Swati Sharma
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