One way to learn best practices and avoid mistakes on a future project is to review the results and activities from a project that you have completed. This is referred to as a project post-mortem.
A project that I have worked on in the past that was successful included automating two mainframe reports into a web based system, which was accurate and did not require tweaking or adjusting at the end of each month. The project included designing a new report which was user friendly and eliminated printing and manual distributing. Staff was limited and everyone had to be trained on the new system, once the programmers understood the old program in order to design the new design.
The Scope of Work was included, Stakeholders including Management, CIS and a PPT presentation which described the details and the report complex calculations. The project was cumbersome and time consuming. The project success largely is due to the advances in technology which eliminates any programming and simply allows departments or divisions to enter the data; the software produces the reports and has graphics which alert departments on their performance.
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Keren,
ReplyDeleteAny project would be a success if departments or divisions just had to enter the data! Software that produces reports and has graphics, alerts management and reports on (I gather the departments' performance in navigating the software?) performance is made in Heaven, as far as I am concerned.
I have a friend, just one friend in this category, who loves, absolutely loves Microsoft Excel. The more complicated the data that she can enter and then tweak cover every future question, the happier she is. It sounds like you got the same satisfaction.
Was this your entire project? If not, what aspect did you work on? How long did it take? What kind of company was it for? This is very exciting!
Great blog, thank you, ma'am.
I know you are interested, because I believe it was a prayer answered for me! I can only imagine the countless hours or money and time spent on programming and training other resources CIS took over and required details because the project required complex input information. The new software simply, put an end to all of the madness. Problem Solved! Thanks Karen
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