http://www.pmhut.com/when-should-you-hire-a-program-or-project-manager Fri, 25 May 2012 03:33:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 http://www.pmhut.com/when-should-you-hire-a-program-or-project-manager/comment-page-1#comment-23338 Stacey Nelson Thu, 05 Aug 2010 20:50:59 +0000 http://www.pmhut.com/?p=5866#comment-23338 Coming from the perspective of a software vendor I have to say that having some level of project management resources from the vendor is critical. I have seen situations where customers think that software is just 'installed' and expect the consultant to do only that and then all the other critical project components are forgotten: procurement of hardware, requirements gathering, planning, resource assignment, deployment, testing, training, business process integration, and final hand-off. In the end, the customer loses if they do not invest in the PM resources (both internal and on the vendor side). I believe both are important and provide the best chance of success. Coming from the perspective of a software vendor I have to say that having some level of project management resources from the vendor is critical. I have seen situations where customers think that software is just ‘installed’ and expect the consultant to do only that and then all the other critical project components are forgotten: procurement of hardware, requirements gathering, planning, resource assignment, deployment, testing, training, business process integration, and final hand-off. In the end, the customer loses if they do not invest in the PM resources (both internal and on the vendor side). I believe both are important and provide the best chance of success.

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