Don’t Bite Off More Than You Can Chew: Too Much Change Is a Recipe for Project Failure November 20, 2022 Shawn Stamp Reading Time: 4 minutes It happens every year. The inevitable post-Thanksgiving dinner food coma. There's just something about having all of that food in one… Read More Categories: ERP Program Management
6 Challenges of Agile at Scale for ERP January 12, 2021 John Belden Reading Time: 4 minutes Overcoming these challenges are key to using agile for an ERP implementation. It's well worth the effort. Agile has been… Read More Categories: Agile
Poor Relationships Line the Pockets of Your System Integrator February 27, 2018 John Belden Reading Time: 5 minutes In the world of ERP deployments where the reported project failure rates go as high as 70%, many factors cause… Read More Categories: ERP Program Management, System Integrators
Co-op Insurance Sues IBM for Breach of Contract: Is Agile at Scale Worth the Risk? January 23, 2018 John Belden Reading Time: 6 minutes On December 18th 2017, U.K. Insurance Co-Op Group’s CIS General Insurance Limited (CISGIL) filed a breach of contract lawsuit against… Read More Categories: Application Management Services, IBM, System Integrators
Let’s Face It — Risk Happens: Pay a Little Now, or a Lot Later December 19, 2017 Shawn Stamp Reading Time: 3 minutes Congratulations! After an exhaustive (and probably exhausting) selection process, you've finally chosen the Systems Integrator (SI) who is going to… Read More Categories: Application Management Services, ERP Program Management, IT Sourcing, System Integrators
Can a Program Status Report be Too Sexy? November 20, 2017 John Belden Reading Time: 4 minutes Have you ever noticed how much time your consultant invests in producing a status report for your program? Filled with the appropriate… Read More Categories: Application Management Services, ERP Program Management, System Integrators
Cleveland Rocks: Your ERP Implementation Needs a Winning Team October 11, 2017 Shawn Stamp Reading Time: 3 minutes As a life-long Cleveland sports fan, I've come to appreciate first-hand the difficulty of assembling a winning team, let alone… Read More Categories: Application Management Services, ERP Program Management, System Integrators
The Value of Experience – What you don’t know will cost you July 13, 2016 Shawn Stamp Reading Time: 3 minutes Over the course of my career in IT, I've been part of roughly a dozen large projects involving negotiations with… Read More Categories: ERP Program Management