Project Management

  • Tools
  • Ways of working

Project Phases

Preparation

  • Statement of Work
  • Contract
  • Understand AS-IS
  • Outline design of TO-BE
  • Software Name
  • Software components
    • Wiki frontend?
    • Cargo
    • LUA
    • HTML (through widgets)
    • Javascript
    • Excel
    • SQL (external to Wiki)
  • Design principles
    • Boilerplate design
    • Menus
    • Security Mangagement

Phases and Timescales

  • Requirements
    • Define (who, what, when)
    • Timescale
  • Design
    • Define
    • Timescale
  • Build
    • Define
    • Timescale
  • Testing
    • Define players
    • Timescale
  • Go-live
    • Define (cookbook etc)
    • Timescale

NOTES:

  1. No phase happens in isolation. This must be conveyed to the customer. While gathering requirements we will be designing the solution
  2. We need to ascertain all elements - migration required? Year end considerations

Pricing

Charging phases

  • Contract sign-off 30%
  • Build phase 20%
  • Completed testing 20%
  • Go-live 30%

Naming

  • What do we call the product?
  • How much do we cover up Wiki element


Ways of Working

  • Bringing in external resource if required - how?
  • platform provider
  • Laszlo / Michael business arrangements - how do we work it?
  • Who leads on what areas
  • Laszlo time management - not impact his core business
  • Brexit risk
  • Language management

Immediate action items

  • understand language translation software
  • Sort solution to security
  • Always lands on main page when logging in - how to handle?