Proposals for solutions the three options way
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by Drake Settsu
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Present your solutions with the three options approach. When you are on a budget and faced with a problem that needs to be addressed you need to look at various options to address the problem.
1) Look at the short term cheap fix solution if it will meet your needs until a long term solution is implemented in the future.
2) When you are uncertain when a long term fix will be implemented you need to look for a solution that has the capability of going the distance without all those bells and whistles.
3) The long term solution with all the bells and whistles that will address all your needs into the future.
It's all in how you present the options to management. You need to upfront commit to your first pick and hard sell it. Management will have a chance to see the three options and decide to just fork out the money to address a permanent fix or select one of the two cheaper solutions to buy time to get that permanent solution in the budget.
(Note - this article was originally written by Drake Settsu and published on DrakeSettsu.BlogSpot.com in April 2014)
Posted on: January 19, 2018 03:50 AM |
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Hopefully there is a short term option, with all the bells and whistles. Some call it Agile.
Drake -
I love it - choice is good, but too much choice isn't!
Thanks for sharing!
Kiron
Option 3 has always worked after you do your Dog & Pony show to illustrate the waste of money going with option 1 or 2.
I always like to give options. If you hard sell one gold plated option you will get pushback that it is too expensive and you need to present alternative options.
Sometimes too many options are overwhelming if put in front of management. It is always better to have all possible options studied and present the most viable ones. You are right Drake that sometimes you are asked to present alternate options at this point you can always say that there are two more options but I did not bring them to table because.......(reasons).
Najam, I like that suggestion to hold back on presenting the two alternate options until called out. That is a great suggestion.
Anish Abraham
Privacy Program Manager| University of Washington
Auburn, Wa, United States
Drake, thanks for the article and I like the options you mentioned here.
Frederick Oware
Senior Systems Analyst| Social Security and National Trust, Ghana.
Accra, Greater Accra, Ghana
Good approach Drake.
Availability of alternatives presents choices obviously but it also presents to the Analyst or PM to be able to efficiently digest all routes.
Having more alternatives at the grassroots is fine but presenting the top 2 is "finer".
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