Entries from July 2007 ↓

Have you ever been on a project where the project status reporting has gone bad?

Does it take a marathon meeting with a project manager to read into the status report to understand whether milestones are being met?

Often, at the beginning of a project, a Project Manager is not willing to spend time to carefully select the reporting tool. The picture changes down the road, when Top Management is not satisfied with the form of the report and wants to make changes. The Project Manager is now forced to change reporting half way into the project. It is common that the revised report is worse than the initial one. This impacts Top Management’s trust in the Project Manager’s ability to deliver the solution. (After all, if you do not know where you project is now, how can you lead it to the next milestone.) Continue reading →

Any ERP project of a considerate size uses one or another system to store project documentation. Steering committee or another project body decides how to store project documents, such as functional requirements, technical design, functional design etc. and defines the version control system for storing these documents. Such decisions often results in a complex hierarchical structure where there is at least one folder per gap or solution. Unfortunately, the same concept is blindly applied to the version control of development objects such as PL/SQL packages, views, tables, workflows etc. Continue reading →