Managing outsourced work: can that project be saved? An experienced, well-trained project manager is not enough to guarantee an outsourced development success. It also takes a reliable, trustworthy, competent supplier. Even if the best project management techniques were used to …
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Managing outsourced work Now that you’ve made your decision, picked a supplier, and written a contract, just kick back and let them do the work and deliver a final product. After all, they won’t fail because they promised they wouldn’t. …
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A few more things to do before making the outsourcing decision: 3. Create a Request for Proposal (RFP) that describes, in great detail, the software you want a supplier to create (the software requirements), anything else you want them to …
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A company that has its own software development capability is driven to outsource software development in an attempt to save money or reduce costs. The company’s management may say they’re doing it because they can’t find enough qualified staff locally …
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Welcome back to blog # 5 in the series. Today, for project management, we are going to look at a very specific case of an on-campus project and how I managed it into an A+. Of course, I had a …
Welcome back, everyone for blog # 3: the fresh and refreshing perspective series. If you have expectations and assumptions about finding something serious here, such a re-engineering and all that other good consultant stuff, this is NOT the place for …
PROJECT MANAGEMENT BEST PRACTICES TO AVOID CAREER LIMITING MOVES – PART 3 of 3 Jeff Schlageter President, Project Acceleration [email protected] Wouldn’t it be great to have a list of project management “best practices” that would help you benefit from the …
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PROJECT MANAGEMENT BEST PRACTICES To AVOID CAREER LIMITING MOVES – PART 2 of 3 Jeff Schlageter President, Project Acceleration [email protected] Wouldn’t it be great to have a list of project management “best practices” that would help you benefit from the …
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So what is the result? Today, usually only one team member has spoken directly with a customer, and this understanding isn’t typically captured in written form anyplace to share with the rest of the product development team members. So when …
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Agile project team values and their embodiment in actual practice are highly subject to personal interpretation on the parts of practitioners, and thus necessarily suffer criticism for its wide-ranging variety of acceptable variations, all claiming to be agile. So a …
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Attribute Results to Processes This may be the most controversial point, but in my opinion it is aligned with the rest of Deming’s philosophy nicely, and I agree with this point totally. In the US especially, Management By Objectives (MBO) …
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Inspection is a Tool for Improvement, Not a Whip Deming’s third point urges practitioners to design quality into processes, using inspection as an information-gathering tool to do so. In project management, the processes and systems make up a methodology. Does …
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I have a friend (let’s call him Andy) who used to work for me and was a good engineer. He subsequently became VP Engineering at an outsourced software development company overseas. I have another friend (let’s call him Don) who …
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How do we communicate PM’s Intent? Here’s an idea.
Do you recognize that your current project is late, but you haven’t taken steps necessary to rescue it, except for saying “we’ll work harder to bring it back on schedule?” If you admit that you should do more to handle …
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Has requirements creep become a requirements stampede in your organization? This is a major pain point for project management professionals; requirements creep after requirements are baselined. Increase requirements stability on your project by adopting a requirements sign-off process to increase …
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Is your Vice President ambitious and overwhelming your department with new project work? I understand the frustration of having an overflowing list of projects. It was a major headache after the .dot com crash when there were less of us …
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Everyone wants to be a leader, but observe how leaders are increasing questioned, their professionalism challenged, and reputation ruined! Take one Olympic swimmer and place them in mud. This obsession with the belief the LEADER IS ABLE TO LEAD causes …
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