Contents

• Introduction & Background 3
• Legal Status of the Stakeholders. 4
• Duty of Care 7
• Legal Issues in Tendering 10
• Conclusions and Recommendations 11
• References 13
• Appendix 16

Description

Project managers need to work within legal frameworks while discharging their duties or while executing projects. Some of the legal aspects of the projects are vendor contracts, customer agreements, employee contracts, property ownership issues, international trade agreements for overseas contracts, adherence governmental and environmental policies etc.. It is important that project managers know their legal responsibilities; else a small negligence could result in serious collateral damage. Business contracts bind concerned parties legally with one another. When the contracts are done by taking all the legal aspects into account, they protect the interests of the parties engaged by the contract. This report analyzes Infosys project to study legal aspects of project management such as stakeholder analysis, duty of care, legal issues in tendering etc. The sample project of web application development initiated by ACIC executed by Infosys does not require adherence to too much of safety and environmental concerns. However, software application development activities need to conform to violation norms such as intellectual property violation norms, copyright violation norms and the use of authorized software. Non-adherence to the time of delivery or developing an erroneous web application causing financial losses to ACIC could also land Infosys in legal trouble. The report recommends Infosys to explicitly mention in its project management plan, its adherence to copyright violation norms, intellectual property violation norms etc... The report also recommends Infosys to compensate their employees proportionately with the earnings from the project as a fair business practice.