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Anton Oosthuizen Senior Business Analyst / Project Manager| Self Employed Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa
Should you run when you hear any of these on your project? Probably not if you have the correct measures and controls in place, else you'd better follow the bomb technician.

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Deepesh Rammoorthy ICT Project Manager ( PMP®AgilePM®Certified ScrumMaster® (CSM®))| Australian Red Cross Blood Service Tarneit, Vic, Australia
Tactical , Strategic and Interim are the scary words that I am used to . An interim application developed 10 years ago which was to be replaced with a more "strategic" solution and was meant to be "Tactical" 10 years ago is still in use.
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Apr 05, 2017 3:00 AM
Anton Oosthuizen
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What you describe is the 'implement a work around' that we will 'fix later' approach :) As you stated, this is very rarely done. Nobody ever tracks the cost of a) maintaining such an interim solution and b) lost efficiency over time.
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Anton Oosthuizen Senior Business Analyst / Project Manager| Self Employed Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa
Apr 05, 2017 2:52 AM
Replying to Deepesh Rammoorthy
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Tactical , Strategic and Interim are the scary words that I am used to . An interim application developed 10 years ago which was to be replaced with a more "strategic" solution and was meant to be "Tactical" 10 years ago is still in use.
What you describe is the 'implement a work around' that we will 'fix later' approach :) As you stated, this is very rarely done. Nobody ever tracks the cost of a) maintaining such an interim solution and b) lost efficiency over time.

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