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    Requirements management

    Day one on this gig from hell I turned to the project manager and said "Well at least we can write the lessons learned document at the start of the project".

    I asked ClientCo for 4 workshops. All group sessions. I got told I could not have this as they were too busy. In stead I got hourly 1-2-1 sessions "when they could find the time". I warned them what this would mean. I warned them about the assumptions I would have to make. I warned them about the caveats I would need to write in.

    So the func spec has been out for review for a week now. The review comments are piling in.

    They have no joint view on how the system should work. So guess what. I need to arrange a series of group workshops to sort this mess out, and rework the document.

    I just love projects where everyone just taps the project plan and hops around like a flee on a griddle.

    Quality takes time. Rush it you get crap.

    And yes, this is a "much cheapness, plenty quickness" project.
    Knock first as I might be balancing my chakras.

    #2
    make sure the requirments are signed off and when you deliver, deliver to the requirements

    if it aint what they wanted but is what they asked for they will look like idiots .... not you

    (well no more than usual!)

    but to be honest as a good PM you should be able to read minds and deliver what they want anyway

    ot at least be able to persuade them that what you have delviered is what they wanted in the first place they just did not realise it

    but have fun

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      #3
      Originally posted by suityou01 View Post
      Quality takes time. Rush it you get crap.
      Amen to that.

      Suffering with almost complete lack of documentation here on a large complex project.

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        #4
        cool just deliver what you want under budget and in time..

        they have no scope to speak of so you cannot be called on that measure

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          #5
          Originally posted by original PM View Post
          make sure the requirments are signed off and when you deliver, deliver to the requirements

          if it aint what they wanted but is what they asked for they will look like idiots .... not you

          (well no more than usual!)

          but to be honest as a good PM you should be able to read minds and deliver what they want anyway

          ot at least be able to persuade them that what you have delviered is what they wanted in the first place they just did not realise it

          but have fun
          The ClientCo won't sign off the spec. There is no formal sign off. Only a review process. They say it makes the supplier share the risk.
          Knock first as I might be balancing my chakras.

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            #6
            Originally posted by suityou01 View Post
            The ClientCo won't sign off the spec. There is no formal sign off. Only a review process. They say it makes the supplier share the risk.
            There you go. The risk is that the clientco wants 5 bespoke systems. The supplier did not notice this when signing off the project. Its not clientco's problem but while its there it definitely is yours.

            Assuming you are on a daily rate why does it bother you. You didn't make the decision and cause this mess the PM did so just follow the advice in my Sig (although in your case it probably should readkeep invoicing, chase payments and carry on ),
            merely at clientco for the entertainment

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              #7
              Originally posted by suityou01 View Post
              Day one on this gig from hell I turned to the project manager and said "Well at least we can write the lessons learned document at the start of the project".

              I asked ClientCo for 4 workshops. All group sessions. I got told I could not have this as they were too busy. In stead I got hourly 1-2-1 sessions "when they could find the time". I warned them what this would mean. I warned them about the assumptions I would have to make. I warned them about the caveats I would need to write in.

              So the func spec has been out for review for a week now. The review comments are piling in.

              They have no joint view on how the system should work. So guess what. I need to arrange a series of group workshops to sort this mess out, and rework the document.

              I just love projects where everyone just taps the project plan and hops around like a flee on a griddle.

              Quality takes time. Rush it you get crap.

              And yes, this is a "much cheapness, plenty quickness" project.
              Kerching, kerching, kerching.
              What happens in General, stays in General.
              You know what they say about assumptions!

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                #8
                It seems to me more and more companies are run like this nowadays. IT has moved from a bunch of techie cowboys doing what they want, to having too many managers doing non-roles trying to justify their existence, which results in no decisions being made.

                This needs to be rebalanced to somewhere between cowboy and utterly managed

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                  #9
                  Originally posted by MarillionFan View Post
                  Kerching, kerching, kerching.
                  Chase chase chase, small kerching, chase chase chase.
                  Knock first as I might be balancing my chakras.

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                    #10
                    How about the requirement of getting paid....or are you still sucking up the agency BS?

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