Posted on May 25, 2008 by Paul Ritchie
Rich Maltzman at Scope crêpe has a post that highlights the need to appropriately structure risk statements (here). I had commented (here) on Rich’s earlier post (here) on assumptions and risk.
A common feature of troubled projects is that their risk statements (if they exist) are too generic. In other words, they could apply to any project, with any [...]
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Posted on May 4, 2008 by Paul Ritchie
A case study (here) and press release (here) about a quick, clean SAP Business All-In-One implementation at TomoTherapy. What stands out about what worked?
Using SAP Best Practices as the baseline. It makes it very easy when one can leverage a fully documented and functional prototype.
Using a partner willing to leverage SAP Best Practices. It is instructive [...]
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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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Posted on March 11, 2008 by Paul Ritchie
Rich at Scope Crêpe has a nice post here on assumptions and risk. I like the way he ties them together with the concept of an “assumption lifecycle.” I also like the butterfly metaphor (can’t vouch for the accuracy of his biology here). From his article:
Assumptions are the larval state of a risk: As you begin a project, you make some [...]
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