in this case I’m the CEO of a company and you’re a new hire you’ve been to the onboarding process and I have a daughter-in-law who has a small retail business in Ohio has three three stores that sell women’s clothing and she’s come to me asking for a loan to buy basically Erp software so what I want from you guys plan I’m going to give you a week 5 days to do whatever you need to do with the owner of this business figure out what are requirements are to figure out what makes at least some kind of sense into cetera and you know how to make make sense cuz I don’t want to lend her the money unless she really needs it so what I want from you guys is spend an hour and come up with a plan plan for 5 days of what would you do if you were in that position the CEO or the partner who ever says is what I want you to do. A week go do it I’ll save it in my circumstances I did not I had not really thought through very carefully what I was trying to accomplish in when I went down and visited with the owner who was out there e frazzled you know almost you know how to jump a nervous guy nervous anxious just very hard and I found me he made me more like him and so I basically wasted a week and didn’t really get much done so what I want you to do is to think about yourself in a similar situation and come up with a plan for me for how how will you spend those five days specifically what I want you to do is come up with a plan for each day of the week so day one what’s the objectives you’re trying to hit that day what are you trying to do that day and what deliverables or deliver a bowl are you going to create that. Hyundai to resuming de11 as you thought they to what’s your objective what are you going to do now what’s the deliverable what are you actually going to get out of that day same thing for day 3 4 and 5 so what I want is a plan I want you to think about going into that kind of a situation at least a little bit organized at least with a plan you can always adjust a plan later but you need to go into this what’s up begin with the end in mind right what what are you are you trying to get which basically is what are the the owners true requirements and in this case she’s actually been approached by a software vendor seems to specialize in functionality that she would need so you may want to talk to the vendor to sell her all riled up at all excited about getting the software find out a little bit more about that I don’t think you can check I know you can’t do a software selection project with total requirements definition in a week can’t happen for the 5 days and I think it’s the end of jective is to really understand the requirements and move forward with the plan for her for the future after the five days is all I’m looking at okay I see one hand rice okay Carly go ahead with questions
Written on July 6th, 2020 by
How would you handle a mini-project for a small business to understand whether ERP makes sense?
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