Archive for the ‘Project Management’ Category

SDLC, Phases and task ownership – Pre-Construction Phase / Design Phase (3)

Continuing the previous two articles: SDLC, Phases and task ownership – Inquiry / Investigation Phase…(1) and SDLC, Phases and task ownership – Inception / Initiation Phase (2)  here is the  Pre-Construction / Design phase. This phase starts after the inception phase. In general, it can be started when the ERS (Engineering requirement specifications) and the project […]

November 1, 2007 · Rahul Desai · No Comments
Posted in: Project Management, Software Engineering

Project hijacking…

This normally happens when you have a dedicated resource, faithfully trusted and assigned to a project on behalf of the company or an enterprise. The resource decides to leave the company for one or the other reason, and instead of handing over the project back to the company / enterprise, works out a situation with the […]

October 17, 2007 · Rahul Desai · No Comments
Posted in: Project Management, Talman news

SQL DownUnder CodeCamp 2007 – Introduction to Performance point 2007 (8)

Session-8 Topic: Introduction to Performance point Adam Cogan – SSW Microsoft Office Performance point Server 2007, the goal of the product is to turn the corporate  goals into Numbers. 3 building blocks of the product…Monitoring, Analytics and Planning (MAP). The product is built around Cubes, Reporting Services, Sharepoint Server,  KPI’s, Dashboards and the competitors to the […]

October 14, 2007 · Rahul Desai · No Comments
Posted in: Project Management, SharePoint, SQL Server, UserGroups and conferences

SDLC, Phases and task ownership – Inception / Initiation Phase (2)

  Continuing from the previous article, we move on to the Inception phase, this phase starts after the Inquiry phase completes. During this phase, the development manager or Project Manager creates the Engineering Requirement Specification (ERS), which describes all technical requirements of the project. This phase ends if the ERS is signed as complete and […]

October 10, 2007 · Rahul Desai · No Comments
Posted in: Project Management, Software Engineering

SDLC, Phases and task ownership – Inquiry / Investigation Phase…(1)

I would want to share the overall software development process which I have successfully followed on many projects in the past, I am not talking about the definition of each phase or what should be done in each phase, but would focus more on the ownership and responsibility matrix for each phase and all the tasks within […]

October 6, 2007 · Rahul Desai · No Comments
Posted in: Project Management, Software Engineering

Hiring decisions should not be put to a panel…

While it may not sound like a good management practice and it is always good to have multiple opinions and multiple people have a say in the process, it does delay the hiring process and often gets wrong people in the wrong positions. It not only results in a delay, it also is a loss of […]

August 3, 2007 · Rahul Desai · No Comments
Posted in: General, Project Management

"Rush" of projects….

This happens once in a while, you are working on a project which lasts longer than expected (may be overrun or mis-managed or whatever) and then while you are approaching the end of the project or after you have completed the project, there is a rush of requirements / projects to be managed, this can be […]

June 18, 2007 · Rahul Desai · No Comments
Posted in: Project Management

Microsoft Releases Scrum Tool

  Microsoft Releases Scrum Tool   Technorati Tags: Microsoft, Project Management

June 17, 2007 · Rahul Desai · No Comments
Posted in: Project Management, Tools, Tips & Utilities

Fixed cost Quotes…the other side

A fixed cost definition can be broadly termed as below (as any standard IT Person can perceive): Should it bid at modest rates and go over budget, the Vendor / Developer will eat the cost, – thus, stating a risk for Vendor / Developer. On the contrary, in case it is hard to predict in terms of time […]

June 5, 2007 · Rahul Desai · No Comments
Posted in: Project Management, Software Engineering

Software development blunders…..Exposing programmers / developers to clients

This seems to be a common issues when working with small teams, exposing programmers / developers to clients i.e allowing clients to directly access programmers for their development requirements. The common reasons why it happens: Client feel comfortable passing on requirements directly (instead of documenting it and processing it through the development process) Project managers […]

May 28, 2007 · Rahul Desai · No Comments
Posted in: Project Management, Software Engineering