Welcome. Climb Aboard
Beginning with this blog entry, I'm going to take you on a real live project journey from the boarding station to final destination. For the purpose of this blog and to protect the innocent, let's call this project Cannonball. Who knows how this journey will end? Will the team get along? Will stakeholders help or hinder progress? Will this project make money for the company? I'll just report the facts as I see them and together you and I can share lessons learned along the way. If you are looking out our project window and you see a potential obstacle ahead, I expect you to warn me.
Project Summary
- Cross Brand Solution that integrates software, hardware and services
- Final decision arbitar: Don't know yet. With three brands involved, every decision could be a dog fight
- Scope:
- Perform integration tests and performance validation
- Create auotmation scripts to install and configure the solution
- Time: target launch in November
- Team:
- Geographically dispersed virtual team
- Morale: Very high. I hear a brass band playing on the kick-off station platform and free donuts are luring unsuspecting team members on to the project train.
- Securing hardware for test. It aint cheap.
- Cross function coordination. Can't we just get along?
- Fulfillment process may require invention.
- Pricing process may require invention.
- A strong date constraint: launch a pilot in just a few month.
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