July 26, 2011 5:17 PM
Posted by: Jaideep Khanduja
change management,
development server,
product management,
production server,
Regression Testing,
release management,
Risk Management,
Staging Server,
Test Server,
testingRelease management is a systematic structured approach of releasing the product to customer. The product journey that starts from requirement gathering from customer, conceptualization, prototyping,...
May 31, 2010 10:01 AM
Posted by: Jaideep Khanduja
capacity constraint,
project constraint,
project drive,
project goals,
project management,
Project Plan,
project task,
quality constraint,
Risk Management,
Software ProjectTasks and Constraints go hand in hand. Life is full of tasks. So is a Project. Project Management consists of lot of planning and re-planning. If everything goes smooth as per plan, there is never a need of re-planning. In real-life scenario this doesn’t happen. Constraints are...
March 6, 2010 9:00 AM
Posted by: Jaideep Khanduja
high risk,
people management,
process,
project management,
Risk analysis,
Risk Management,
risk mitigation,
Software ProjectAny project, small or big, is bound to have risks. Risks perceived can be managed well as an advanced risk management plan can be prepared with the ways to mitigate the risk. Risks that are not perceived during the risk management plan are bound to create chaos and unplanned...
February 5, 2010 1:21 PM
Posted by: Jaideep Khanduja
project charter,
project definition,
project deliverables,
project management,
project objective,
Project Plan,
Project Risk,
project scope,
project team,
project vision,
Risk Management1. Project Definition: Either don’t define your project or define it in most ambiguous manner so that even if you read it again, you are not able to make anything out of it. Don’t define Project Charter comprising of project vision, project objective, project scope and project...
November 23, 2009 10:00 AM
Posted by: Jaideep Khanduja
Project Development,
project implementation,
Project Lifecycle,
project management,
project methodology,
risk,
Risk Management,
software development,
software management,
software requirement,
tester,
testingAny software development and implementation project comprises of risks. The visible risks are easy to handle or manage. Invisible risks are more vulnerable. Invisible risks are like volcanoes that can erupt without any warning and can...
November 6, 2009 10:00 AM
Posted by: Jaideep Khanduja
Development,
project management,
project methodology,
Project Plan,
project sponsor,
Risk Management,
risk mitigation,
risk severity,
software development,
Software ProjectWhat if you have chosen to develop a product for which you don’t have a customer right now? If you perceive that by the time you complete development phase and the product will be ready to launch if will not be obsolete as per technology or concept, go ahead but take care of following cautions to...
June 1, 2009 9:00 AM
Posted by: Jaideep Khanduja
key user management,
post implementation review,
product acceptance,
product building,
product development,
product friendliness,
product maturity,
product usefulness,
project effectiveness,
project implementation process,
project requirements,
Risk Management,
risk perception,
software business,
software implementation,
Software Project,
software project management,
team managementWhat is post implementation review? When it should be done? Why is it required? All this has been discussed in last three posts. Let us now understand what ideally would be the components of a post implementation review. As discussed earlier, some components can be answered immediately at the...
May 8, 2009 10:09 AM
Posted by: Jaideep Khanduja
change management,
manpower management,
project guidelines,
Project Lifecycle,
project management,
project stages,
Risk Management,
risk mitigation,
Risk Plan,
Software ProjectAlthough it can not be avoided in real life scenario and that is why there is a risk plan and risk management to avoid such circumstances. But still a lot can be done to atleast minimize the risk and thereby mitigation.
Vendor - Management has to ensure the bare minimum changes (preferably NO...
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 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,...
March 4, 2009 10:03 AM
Posted by: Jaideep Khanduja
business requirements,
change management,
Code library,
Code repository,
development plan,
implementation plan,
organizational goals,
product development,
project close-out,
project documentation,
project management,
project methodologies,
Project Plan,
project standards,
Quality Goals,
requirements analysis,
Risk Management,
Risk Plan,
software development,
software development methodologies,
software development standards,
Software Project,
software quality,
Software Repository,
software testing,
SQA,
SQC,
test case,
test case repository,
Test Plan,
test standards,
time to test,
top management requirements1. Quality Goals are meant only for Quality Department: No department other than quality (project management, product development, documentation, general management etc.) has to read, understand and learn about the quality goals of the organization. It is only the responsibility of...
