Posts Tagged ‘project management’

Yesterday my colleague, Shawn Jensen, wrote a blog discussing why colocation is not vital to the success of Salesforce projects. Today, I’m making a counterargument as to why colocation is essential to a successful project. While you can make solid arguments for or against both of our perspectives, the purpose of this friendly debate is to simply help you weigh the pro’s and con’s […]

Generally colocation is perceived that having your Salesforce consultant team onsite will result in a higher quality set of deliverables or go to production faster. Project sponsors and leads can validate work in real time, and gain confidence that the project is moving forward in the direction that they envision. But is that really true? […]

  When deciding to rollout Salesforce, you probably went through the typical business case or business planning process.  This included looking at factors like the political, economic, financial and social ramifications of the move to a cloud platform with incredible capabilities to transform your business.  That said, when you’ve reached the final rollout, how closely […]

  While implementing Salesforce at a large cross-section of clients in different industries, we often get the common question of what our “best practice” is and what our “best approach” is to address a company’s unique situation.  So, why is it that every time a client says, “We want best practice for X solution”, we often […]

I’ll get this out of the way quickly — there is no such thing as a typical GSA implementation. With that said, I have been involved in scoping and delivering around 250 GSA implementations, and some averages and trends have emerged.  Most projects involve the same five core phases: Design and Requirements, Hardware and Security, Content […]

  Whether you have invested in Sales Cloud because you are upgrading your current method of tracking sales or because you need to scale up from a non-cloud version of sales tracking, you want to make sure your project is a success. This drive for success will ensure better returns on investment, better future decision […]

All content work is not equal. Several factors influence how long it can take to edit a single document. Let’s review the seven levels of editing as detailed by Susan Wyche, and lay a foundation for how to calculate the time it takes to edit content.

From a PM/AM perspective, we are expected to keep the client happy (fulfill their objectives and vision), be the voice for our internal team and help produce a relevant and useful product while staying on time and in budget. Neglecting one and overdoing the others can cause issues with the overall success of the project, […]

Written by Matt Stehling Requirements Overview Requirements, which are interchangeably referred to as “expectations,” encapsulate capabilities and behaviors that a product, system or process must have in order to fulfill a business need or solve a business problem. A requirement is typically classified first into either a functional or non-functional requirement, and from there into […]

Last time, I posted about how BI/DW accelerator and framework tools need to be used with care, and not as a substitute for solid requirements analysis. This time, I want to debunk a misconception that can be framed by the following question: Will Agile processes speed up my BI development timeline?   I see many situations […]

Yammer has a full range of features to help you communicate openly and expedite decision making, open new collaboration channels and breakdown email silos. Let’s start looking at our current ways of communicating with our team. A typical project is slated to begin and end with a vision and goal. In order to achieve these, […]

A common complaint about data warehousing/BI has been time to market.   The investment in real months required to stand up analytics is just too large. Descriptions of the actual time required vary (depending on who you ask, and what their interests are) from a year to 24 months. The numbers are open to debate, but […]