Category: Project Management

Prior to implementing NAV, LS Retail, or any software package for that matter, it is important to have documented requirements approved by the stakeholders. The Project Management Office here at ArcherPoint engages with our clients in what we call a “project preparation work effort” to help identify these requirements, which lays the foundation for upcoming… Continue reading The Elephant, I mean Project Budget Question, in the Room

I was recently on a business trip with a colleague, and we found ourselves at a Chinese and sushi restaurant in New Jersey. At the end of the night, I opened up one of the best fortune cookies of my life. Ever. “If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.” These are definitely words… Continue reading Agile Project Management: It’s okay to drink the Kool-Aid!

This past summer I agreed to spend our family vacation camping. My brother-in-law and his family were driving down from British Columbia to meet our family halfway. Sounded simple, fun, and a low cost vacation! During preparation month, consisting of menu planning emails, compiling camping cargo to the middle of the garage, and writing the… Continue reading Project Planning and Identifying Requirements

Communication overkill and budget overruns. That was the first thought that came to my mind when I first began managing using the agile approach to project management. I didn’t think it was possible to have any more meetings to discuss a project, which would surely blow the budget. As I continued to use this methodology… Continue reading Not a daily status meeting – a daily standup!

As I wallow in my own self-pity, miserable from a head cold that hit me like a freight train over the weekend, I thought about how grateful I should be when I am feeling healthy. There’s nothing like waking up in the morning after a good night’s sleep, full of energy, ready to try and… Continue reading An Ounce of Prevention – Keeping Your Project Healthy

At ArcherPoint, we use an agile approach to project management so we are able to deliver business value throughout the project life cycle. This is contrary to waterfall methodologies where you get the ‘big bang’ delivery of the project scope at the end – if you even make it there. A study done by McKinsey &… Continue reading On your mark! Get set! Wait! You can’t start with the execution phase

First, let me introduce myself. I’m the web developer for ArcherPoint. However, many moons before joining the ArcherPoint team, I was a developer and a project manager. My experience was based in good old-fashioned waterfall techniques…and dang it, they worked. They worked well. And I was comfortable with them. Yeah. Okay… there was that time… Continue reading Living an Agile Life

Growing up I heard about a distant relative named Charlie who was often AWOL when dinner was ready to be served.   “Where is Charlie?” would be the question asked by the grandmother, and the response by the kids in unison was always “Charlie is out feeding the chickens”.   Charlie often choose the wrong time to… Continue reading Charlie is out Feeding the Chickens