Legal vetting helps reduce project failure

Posted on March 12, 2008 by Paul Ritchie

Interesting SearchCIO article on leveraging legal (and purchasing) expertise to faciliate deals (here, I think this is available w/out the free registration).  A few comments on the speech by Erik Phelps:
“It is not just the ‘bad vendor’ who sells the software; often it is the bad customer who isn’t going about the procurement process very well,” [...]

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Manage Vendors Wisely — Tips from Project Failure Blog

Posted on February 12, 2008 by Paul Ritchie

I’m commenting on the project success checklist at Michael Krigsman’s Project Failure Blog.. My comments are scattered among his notes (excerpted below). I’d love to hear your comments on the details behind some of these factors as we go …
4. Manage vendors wisely — IT projects often involve extensive interaction with software vendors, consultants, training [...]

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