A few years ago I was asked to work with a group and see if I could add to a website they wanted to create. It was a public disability Association that wanted to have a website that could answer questions for people concerning their computer.
I found this to be a worth while cause so I went to several meetings and came back to them with costs and how it can be done. Finally they wanted to limit the help desk and resources to their own local group. I encourage them to reconsider and open it up global but they refused. The cost initially was too high to maintain such a small group.
The PM should have took more interest in the stakeholders from the beginning. There should have been more conversation of what the stakeholders wanted as an outcome.
I like your post because it is very to the point and still explains perfectly well some good examples of what can happen during a project. You did a good job at noticing right from the beginning where the problems in this project lie.
ReplyDeleteThere was not enough pre-planning when it came to this project. If the PM would have done a meeting before the project as Greer states to do started with all the stakeholders then you could have saved yourself some time. The meeting could have found in advance that the client didn't want to spend the money that would be needed to complete the objectives they wanted.
Greer, M. (2010). The project management minimalist: Just enough PM to rock your projects! (Laureate custom ed.). Baltimore: Laureate Education, Inc