April 27, 2009 10:06 AM
Posted by: Jaideep Khanduja
domestic project,
overseas project,
project implementation,
project management,
project manager,
project monitoring,
project organization,
project overrun,
Project Plan,
Project Planning,
software implementation,
Software ProjectA classic scenario happened in an organization recently as told to me by a project manager of that organization engaged in software development and implementations.
It is related to project overrun.
A new project started with a set of requirements from a customer for development and...
April 24, 2009 10:06 AM
Posted by: Jaideep Khanduja
customer engagement,
management involvement,
project closure,
project cost,
project management,
project momentum,
project organization,
Project Plan,
Project Planning,
project sign-off,
project time,
project training,
project velocity,
Software ProjectProject overrun is simply a project crossing its boundaries set by the organization. These boundaries may vary from organization to organization depending on how they blindly or how over-extensively (both extremes) they want to look at it.
5 ways to control project overrun could be:
1....
April 22, 2009 9:51 AM
Posted by: Jaideep Khanduja
customer requirements,
project acceptance,
project closure,
project cost,
project management,
project manpower management,
project organization,
project overrun,
Project Plan,
Project Planning,
project timeframe,
project timeline,
Software Project,
software requirementsAll projects are prone to overrun. An overrun acceptance is directly proportional to an organization’s fault absorption capacity. Accordingly the definition of overrun is framed to demonstrate an overrun project as rightly completed project.
5 myths about Project Overrun could be:
5....
April 20, 2009 10:05 AM
Posted by: Jaideep Khanduja
business need,
business study,
implementation phase,
implementation plan,
implementation process,
post implementation,
process owner,
project closure,
project failure,
project implementation,
project lead,
project management,
project manager,
project ownership,
project sign-off,
project success,
project team,
reconciliation,
Risk Management,
Risk Plan,
software training,
transaction entry,
UATThe customer project manager has to take the lead and ownership of product as soon as it is launched at customer site for implementation. The UAT, training and implementation process can only be effective in case customer project team gets fully involved into each and every activity of the...
April 17, 2009 10:03 AM
Posted by: Jaideep Khanduja
implementation plan,
project implementation,
project lead,
project management,
project manager,
project team,
Risk Management,
Risk Plan,
software implementationThe vendor project manager has to work as a consultant to the customer project manager rather than taking the full command at customer site during implementation phase. From vendor side, it is the responsibility of the project manager to highlight the risks (in terms of user’s availability,...
April 16, 2009 9:40 AM
Posted by: Jaideep Khanduja
implementation plan,
project closure,
project lead,
project management,
project manager,
project team,
software acceptance,
software implementation,
Software ProjectProject managers (the customer end and the vendor end) have to work hand in hand during the implementation stage of a software project happening at customer site. The key responsibility of both the project managers working on the project is to ensure successful implementation and project...
April 13, 2009 10:01 AM
Posted by: Jaideep Khanduja
project implementation,
Project Lifecycle,
project management,
project manager,
software development,
software implementation,
Software Project,
software testingNo project manager can claim there was not a single problem in any of his projects. But then he is to tackle them. To tackle them he should be aware of them. To be aware of them, he has to have an ability to foresee them than to overlook them. The earlier he envisages those problems, the more time...
April 10, 2009 9:59 AM
Posted by: Jaideep Khanduja
Application development,
application implementation,
application readiness,
post implementation,
project director,
project management,
project manager,
project sponsor,
project vision,
software development,
software implementation,
software project manager,
software testing,
stakeholder,
successful implementationIt is not only the project manager but all stakeholders who get affected by the project over-run or failure. It could happen due to any reasons. One of the major reasons that have emerged is the lack of vision of the project manager, project sponsors, project directors and other stakeholders to...
April 8, 2009 10:18 AM
Posted by: Jaideep Khanduja
application testing,
impact analysis,
risk,
Risk analysis,
risk assessment,
risk classification,
risk closure,
risk identification,
risk perception,
Risk Plan,
risk plan analysis,
risk plan execution,
Software application,
software development,
software testingA risk is a bigger than its size if it is not identified well in advance. An identified risk is as risky as unidentified if its assessment is not done. Risk assessment is useless if there is no impact analysis. Impact analysis has no worth if its countermeasure is not identified.
Let us...
April 6, 2009 10:29 AM
Posted by: Jaideep Khanduja
countermeasure,
fool-proofing,
impact analysis,
Project Lifecycle,
risk assessment,
risk identification,
risk impact,
Risk lifecycle,
Risk Management,
risk severity,
SDLC,
Software application,
software project managementSimilar to SDLC (software development lifecycle management), there is RLC or Risk lifecycle management in a software application in which there are different stages involved. The different stages could be risk identification, risk assessment, impact analysis, countermeasure identification,...
April 2, 2009 10:06 AM
Posted by: Jaideep Khanduja
application availability,
bank application,
high risk,
low risk,
medium risk,
risk,
Risk analysis,
risk impact,
Software application,
software availability,
software requirement,
software usage,
software user volume,
vulnerabilityAny activity is never without risk involved in it. Risk could be classified in different categories like - low, medium or high depending on its impact, software’s requirements and purpose, software usage, and software user volume. Accordingly the risks are identified or rather perceived. Their...
