Requirements management

[Arturo Bassick]

ftfy

In my field I regularly fulfil the Scotty/LeForge/O'Brien role. If I am on an away team or in a critical situation I am coming back.

[Arturo Bassick]

Or the Six Million Dollar man.

Also true.

[Arturo Bassick]

In my field I regularly fulfil the Scotty/LeForge/O'Brien role. If I am on an away team or in a critical situation I am coming back.

Speaking of which....... team lead has just been in asking if I am available to next June (assuming budgets confirmed) and the team lead from my last gig has asked me if I can come back so feeling pretty good right now.

[TheFaQQer]

Please provide responses to the following PM cliches :

1) Suity, I know what you're saying, but this is a fixed price project.
2) Suity, I know what you're saying, but there's only a day in the plan for this.
3) Suity, I know what you're saying, but we're working to strict deadlines here.

"You have a choice - either hit the deadline with what we have as requirements now, or we can spend more time getting the requirements right and give the client what they want but at a later date. Since it's a fixed-price engagement, then you'll have to go with the first one and then determine later what is a requirements gap, what is a change request and what is a bug. But that's something that you, as PM, needs to manage and needs to be prepared for.

In an ideal world, we would work out exactly what the requirements are before agreeing the price and duration of the project - I'd be kicking the sales / pre-sales guys that sold the project to the client if I were in your position.

So, what can I do to help from here, if the business is going to be obstructive?"

Suity, this "pretty niche area" you work in seems to be full of cretins; clients that won't formally sign off, insufficient time to attend workshops, comments taken on as change requests. What a f**king nightmare! If I were you I'd drop this "niche area" and skill up in some mainstream technology where you might work with 'normal' people.

WHS

[eek]

Suity, is this a Bob consulting company you are working for?

Bad news: Next big meeting you attend, if you look around the room and can't see a fall-guy, it's you.
Watch your back, watch what you say.

HTH

WAPS apart from the fact he is THE contractor. His sole purpose for being employed is to be THE fall guy.

[suityou01]

I think the key problem here is that the project sponsor is a bit flaky. We just went through his review comments, and he kept on chopping and changing his mind on some of the fundamental aspects that we thought had already been agreed.

So the F-Spec is due to be delivered with all review comments factored in by close of business, yet some of the comments are "still in discussion".

So suity thinks, just deliver the flaming f-spec and everything else is a change request.

This is the point when the working relationship collapses, everything becomes "cover yer arse" emails, and as AP says, try not to be the fall guy.

So I then just need coping strategies for the remaining 14 weeks. I think I might start smoking a crack pipe.

[MaryPoppins]

So suity thinks, just deliver the flaming f-spec and everything else is a change request.

Yup.

[MarillionFan]

In my field I regularly fulfil the Scotty/LeForge/O'Brien role. If I am on an away team or in a critical situation I am coming back.

So what you're saying is that your a blind, overweight, black Celtic engineer who doesn't actually produce anything?

No offense like.

[Doggy Styles]

In my field I regularly fulfil the Scotty/LeForge/O'Brien role. If I am on an away team or in a critical situation I am coming back.

I don't remember O'Brien. Do you mean the one from 1984?

[Arturo Bassick]

So what you're saying is that your a blind, overweight, black Celtic engineer who doesn't actually produce anything?

No offense like.

Apart from the black. blind and celtic, that about sums me up.
I do produce the goods in an impossibly short time frame after leading the client to believe it will take ages, thus enhancing my reputation beyond measure.