Common use of Application Development Responsibilities Clause in Contracts

Application Development Responsibilities. (a) First Data shall be responsible for designing, developing, and implementing ongoing and new AD projects as and to the extent requested by RCSI. First Data shall consider any suggestion of RCSI as to the location of First Data personnel performing particular AD projects, but First Data shall make such AD location decisions. First Data shall perform the AD in accordance with industry-accepted, repeatable, systems development life cycle methodology. The methodology will include the processes comprehensively covering the AD activities next described. That methodology will also include the following: (i) developing appropriate documentation, preserving the knowledge base for reuse, and developing and implementing appropriate user training; and (ii) a change procedure under which RCSI may request enhancements, customizations, interfaces, or other changes to the AD project. That procedure will include the performance of an analysis by First Data to determine the impact (including financial, allocation and use of resources, and scheduling) of the requested enhancement(s), customization(s), development of interface or other change(s) on the AD project and will require that no change will be made until reduced to a written change order describing the change order and associated costs with particularity and approved by RCSI. Table of Contents (b) Except as otherwise approved by RCSI, AD projects performed by First Data shall include the activities next described and the Parties’ respective responsibilities will be as next described. These provisions also apply, as appropriate, to the extent portions of AD projects are assigned to First Data.