I have purposely used the word ideas in the chapter title, because I cannot know your requirements from afar. If I do have the opportunity to assess your requirements and software, we will have hundreds, or close to 1,000 requirements. Once you have these requirements set out, you are ready for a software vendor selection…
Project Planning: More Art than Science There are many consultants and vendors alike who tout their project delivery as “agile” or always “timely”. Many mention, too, that they have nearly 100% success and 100% track records in delivering projects. One of my favorite claims is that 100% of our clients are referenceable. My daughter and…
The Behavioral Science and All of Those “A” Words We are going to start defining your requirements. Since we are now convinced through demos – even if you haven’t even seen one yet – and with expectations that everything is in scope, we just have to ensure we communicate it in this phase so that…
The key to this evolution, not revolution, is that most people in business, who have never worked in commodity or energy trading, quickly learn that this space is a paradox. Trading operates at twenty times the pace than any other company activity, yet it moves slowly in time in comparison to the other technological advances…
There are certain tasks you must do here to launch a project into a state of momentum. When projects find momentum, the people working on that project find great satisfaction and some even have fun. You just know when that’s happening – it feels good. Many, though, have never been in this zone, so let’s…
