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In commercial transactions, a warranty is an obligation or guarantee that an article or service sold is as factually stated or legally implied by the vendor, and that often provides for a specific remedy such as repair / replacement or cost refund in the event the article or service fails to meet the warranty. A breach of warranty occurs when the promise is broken, i.e., a product is defective or not as should be expected by a reasonable buyer.
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A Statement of Work (SOW) is a narrative description of required work. It stipulates the deliverables or services required by a client. It defines the task to be accomplished or services to be delivered in clear, concise and meaningful terms.
The attached statement of work contains the following sections:-
1. Work Breakdown Estimate
2. Requirement Objectives
3. Background & Specific Scope
4. System Requirements
5. Key Delivery & Payment Milestones
6. Charges
7. Key Project Staff
8. Third Party Software License Costs
9. Dependencies
10. Acceptance Test
11. Acceptance Criteria
12. Technical, Operational and Organisational Environment
13. Reporting Requirements
14. Project Management Control Procedures
15. Change Procedures
16. Authorities
17. Sign-off & Authorisation
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Posted by Kevin Brady on Fri 10th July 2009 at 01:43 PM, Filed in
A friend of mine Dominic Fenton recently posed the following question:-
When you are invited to PM an infrastructure project and you are not familiar with the infrastructure componentary i.e. contemporary middleware systems such as Websphere Enterprise Bus, what do you do to ensure Solutions Architects, Security Architects and alike, do not pull the wool over your eyes?
This is a common dilemma faced by most project managers at some point in their career. Some 20 years ago I thought the answer to this question was:-
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During a recent trip to the British Library I thought I would take a quick look at the recently published Standish CHAOS Survey to see if we are improving our project and programme delivery failure rates.
I have to say the results of my investigation were very positive:-
Note – In 2000 in the US, the spend on IT application development is approximately $250 billion and represents some 175000 projects. The average cost of a development project for a large company is $2,322,000; for a medium company, it is $1,331,000; and for a a small company, it is $434,000
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Posted by Kevin Brady on Sat 27th June 2009 at 11:04 AM, Filed in Industry News
Last week I attended the Best Practice Showcase a real must to attend. The event focuses on project & programme management networking (meet who’s who in the project and programme management world), presentations running through changes /improvements in project and programme management best practices and the opportunity to participate in over 100 different workshops covering cutting edge and controversial topics in project and programme management. If your interested in furthering your project, programme and PMO management capability then this is the even for you.
Don’t miss this in 2010 !
I spent a whole day at the event last week and sat in on case study presentations covering subjects as diverse as Agile /Scrum, SRO’s Attitudes and a very very interesting presentation by Pearcemayfield concerning the important matter of how PRINCE2 and MSP can be reconciled as a unified project and programme management framework.
More on these in coming posts.
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