In a Software Project
Let me assess your project periodically and make sure vendors are delivering what’s needed. I can help you with both remote and in-person meetings.
Soon after a software project begins, there’s often disappointment. The solution does not work like they claimed during the sales process or (let’s be honest) you did not ask the right questions.
Now you need to raise issues with the vendor, track open items, and make sure your team is getting their work done on time. You need project help.
Put me on your project team – let me assist with Quality Assurance reviews and ongoing support. Remote tools let me attend your project meetings, verify that issues are raised and addressed, and help to identify problems early.
Here’s an example when I helped guide someone else’s project through a rocky stretch.
A different unit of government was implementing a shared system that would replace one used by our City. I was on an oversight board but had little detailed interaction with the project team.
The critical path for this project was data conversion. They couldn’t start without a clean cut-over of data; it would be impossible to fix later!
At a board meeting a few months before we went live, I asked what would happen if the conversion wasn’t ready. The response was not promising: the project manager assured us it would be ready. But what if it’s not? I persisted… what would be the plan? They had no answer at the time.
No surprise: the conversion wasn’t ready and they delayed go-live. But they did it in a manner that was well-planned and openly communicated. Thinking about failing makes the difference… even when it goes poorly, you are ready with a Plan B.
That experience was one of several discussed in this post about building momentum: https://blog.tectonicspeed.com/2020/07/the-tectonic-speed-of-government-part-4.html and this post about guiding it: https://blog.tectonicspeed.com/2020/12/tectonic-speed-of-government-part-5.html