We started off the week by reviewing a small presentation that I put together over the weekend. It included the reasons to upgrade (or re-implement), importance of planning, phase 1 tasks broken down by mini phases, and deliverables out of each mini phase. Core Project team attended this meeting and the meeting was productive.
We then spoke with two vendors, one a big name and the second one a decent sized consulting company. Our director arranged for these meetings and calls, where she gave them a list of questions before hand and we sort of tried to pick their brains about the best approach to our project.
Big name vendor - It went more like a sales meeting. Our questions were around whether we should do a re-implementation or an upgrade, how our team structure should be, what kind of staff aug arrangements that they can suggest if they were selected and a host of other issues. This vendor's answers were not very straight forward. They danced around most of the issues leaving us no less confused by the end of the meeting.
Consulting company - I liked the person who spoke with us during this call. She has plenty of experience in PS implementations and gave us honest and straight forward answers to our questions. She promised to follow up with some required documentation, and seemed very eager to work with us and earn our business. I have a good feeling about this company.
Its only first day of the week, and we have calls scheduled with more vendors over the next few days.
I am working on the Project Plan and I need to get it ready by end of the day tomorrow.
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