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What’s a project plan?

Post author:Vjeko
Post published:April 13, 2009
Post category:Project management
Post comments:2 Comments

Project plan. A fancy term we all like to use. But believe it or not, most of us don’t even know what a project plan really is.

I don’t know why, how and when it came to be that in IT we started using the term project plan, but whatever the origin, the term we use is somewhat incorrect, and when attached to what we often attach it to, it’s downright wrong.

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Is an ERP implementation project just a project?

Post author:Vjeko
Post published:April 6, 2009
Post category:ERP Implementation Project management
Post comments:1 Comment

“Software projects are no different from other projects”.

This statement is being repeated over and over at project management courses and seminars, even endorsed in books.

It’s true that software (and ERP implementation, as a subset of software) projects have many traits in common with projects in other disciplines. But ignoring their specifics is almost as wrong as saying that software projects are completely different than other projects.

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