by SP Singh | May 29, 2022 | Home
Enterprise implementations are complex beasts. It would be nice if Project Sponsors have clarity on priority. What is more important? Ensuring the product (project outcome) is well received by the business, orThe project is delivered within the set budget, orThe...
by SP Singh | May 27, 2022 | Home
Once upon a time, an army of two countries joined to fight one strong enemy. Both armies joined to form a massive power. The Leaders of both the countries were confident that they would win the battle. So, as per the plan, they attacked the enemy. The enemy...
by SP Singh | May 26, 2022 | Home
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...
by SP Singh | May 25, 2022 | Home
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...
by SP Singh | May 24, 2022 | Home
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...
by SP Singh | May 23, 2022 | Home
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...
by SP Singh | May 22, 2022 | Home
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...
by SP Singh | May 22, 2022 | Home
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...
by SP Singh | May 20, 2022 | Home
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...
by SP Singh | May 19, 2022 | Home
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...
