Vendor Management: Fixed Price Contract for Risk Transfer? 4 Risks You Still Own in R&D Projects

We have heard this thousand times… Outsourcing greatly helps in managing better. There are variety of ways to design the project contract between client and vendor organizations. Out of the contract types spectrum, two contract types stand out – T&M (Time and Material) where buyer (customer) bears all the risk. On the other extreme, in … Read moreVendor Management: Fixed Price Contract for Risk Transfer? 4 Risks You Still Own in R&D Projects

Program Manager: Delivery Responsibility of the Program

This entry is part 10 of 12 in the series Tech Company Casestudy

After getting assigned as program manager by director, program manager quickly starts his work. His job is complex: Nobody reports to him. He needs to get the delivery done from members named by EMs. He may not have the right technical background to fully understand what technical members. But, Has good past experience of successes and … Read moreProgram Manager: Delivery Responsibility of the Program

PMO Practice Head: Driving Delivery Of All Projects

This entry is part 8 of 12 in the series Tech Company Casestudy

Program Management As the sales grew, the need for integrated solutions increased. This increased the number of projects involving multiple groups. Also for product within the same group, the influence and dependency of open source increased. So the need for synchronizing releases increased. Also the external partners increased. So did the outsourcing. All these increased … Read morePMO Practice Head: Driving Delivery Of All Projects