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by Drake Settsu
Sharing my Project Management adventures and some tips.
I like to keep my articles brief and to the point.
Project Management is an Art, Science, and Discipline.
Just keep it simple and have fun!
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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)
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Posted on: January 19, 2018 03:50 AM
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"If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man."
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