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What is the purpose of a Change request or Variation?
You may have a love or hate relationship with Change Requests (CR), depending on which side you sit on. For example, on the vendor side, Project Managers take pride in getting the customer to approve CRs. Similarly, Professional Services Managers (with P&L...
Don’t fool yourself by assuming you know it all!
Be very cautious when you hear from the ERP/CRM vendor: Oh, we have done it many times. We are confident that we will complete the project within the set time and budget. Nothing is straightforward in enterprise application projects. Assuming you know it all is one of...
What is the role of a Customer Project Sponsor in Enterprise software implementation?
Continuing from our 'building the big family house' example, let us continue. Please first refer to the following two posts, for continuity: Who exactly are the Subject Matter Experts in Enterprise software implementation? What is the role of the Customer Project...
What is the role of the Customer Project Manager in Enterprise software implementation?
Remember, we spoke about building a family house in the last post? Please read and refresh your memory before continuing further. Building a big family house can have some challenges: The family members sharing needs of the house may provide conflicting requirements...
Who exactly are the Subject Matter Experts in Enterprise software implementation?
The Project team on the customer side is known by different fancy titles like Subject Matter Experts (SME), Site Champions, and Project Champions. So, who exactly are the Subject Matter Experts? Let us first consider an example to make our life easier! Imagine you are...
How to measure project success?
The standard way to measure project success is to match the 'actuals' with 'planned' constraints. During project initiation, we set project success criteria and the constraints. The typical project constraints are Scope, Time, Budget and Quality. We match the actual...
Project planning is useless until we address this annoying thing!
We prepare a project plan. Then Business As Usual (BAU) work surprise us by taking priority, and we plan again. It is one of the typical negative cycles we all experience. Unfortunately, it looks like we have accepted it as a general business practice. So, we seldom...
Educate the project team! Before it is too late!
It is a norm to educate passengers before any significant journey. Remember how Air Hostess explains the aircraft's emergency evacuation and safety features? Similarly, we make induction mandatory for any significant site visits. Again, the purpose is to educate us to...
Play your role with intent!
We all have a role to play. Sometimes we are in sales, busy selling our product, service or craft. Other times we are customers making the best choices for ourselves and our organisations. So our roles are fluid, but always ensure to play your role with intent! As a...
Burn your messy house and move to a new one!
It sounds silly, isn’t it? Burn your messy house and move to a new one! Then, why do we change enterprise (ERP/CRM) software? If the existing EPR has issues (is messy), then why do we replace it with another similar ERP? Why don’t we ask some hard questions like: What...
Why are IT projects too complex?
It is a common myth that the complexity of IT projects is due to technical development work. We assume that the technical solutions within IT projects are complex. The fact is that technological development is a small portion of the overall project. The main reason...
10 symptoms pointing figure at your enterprise software!
It does not matter where you are on the digital maturity journey; there is always room for improvement. The following 10 symptoms pointing figure at your enterprise software. As an executive/Project Sponsor, review and plan to take action. Acknowledging the problem is...
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