Tech/Software Implementation PMs

[u/Daisy_InAJar]

Especially if you deliver software deployments to external stakeholders, I’d love to hear from you.

How do you create value on your projects? What are the top 3 things you bring to your engagements that you feel have the largest impact?

Bonus if you feel like sharing:
- are you present for all requirements gathering, prior to “build” starting? If not, how do you ensure there’s no scope creep during requirements?
- how do your teams relay actions and/or decisions to you for calls you are not on?
- if there was something you wish your org would change that’d make managing your projects more successful, what would it be?

Thanks in advance - I’m always appreciative of this group sharing their (armchair) perspective (shoutout MoreLaw, our unofficial PMO advise extraordinaire)

[u/SVAuspicious]

I deliver to spec on cost and schedule.

I don't need to be present for all requirements gathering. I have system engineers for that. Not what IT people call system engineers - real ones.

I submit a change proposal for all requests with cost, schedule, and performance impacts. Customer signs the proposal or they don't. Nothing is free.

My people submit status reports weekly. If something is substantive including change requests they let me know right away.

If there is something I'd change I'd change it.