The school of hard knocks

Posted by Jon on Dec 16, 2021 in PMChat Bloggers | Comments Off

It’s said that you learn more from failures than you do from successes.  Here’s a project I learned a lot from The brief was to project manage the procurement and implementation of a large IT system.  Seemed straight forward enough, I’d done it before… The challenge: Resources were tight Project team included some VERY ‘strong’ characters Project team were under-performing Project sponsor was disengaged Project had to enable substantial service cost reductions (1/3 of a multi-million pound budget) We conducted soft market testing, produced a very detailed requirements specification and went to market.  We were unable to appoint a supplier because all suppliers failed to meet all ‘essential’ requirements. We revised the specification, but the relationship between myself and the sponsor had deteriorated to the point of no return and I was ‘ freed up to work on something else ‘.  As you can imagine, this was not pleasant.

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The school of hard knocks