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IDM Projects don't always have to succeed right ?

Projects, projects and more projects :) My recent endeavours in some of them highlighted the need to express myself and address few points and observations. Contrary to common beliefs that the end goal of every project is successful implementation of the client requirements I do believe that in reality it’s a bit different. First of all every project is an accounting exercise and if we look closely it’s about money distribution. Client has allocated a pool of money from its IT budget to address certain issues in its current IT landscape. Client via tender or other selection process hires consulting company to engage with the proposed scope of work. High level agreement is signed between the Client and Consultancy. Good we on the way :) Second step is Client appoints its own PM to oversee and supervise the execution of the project. Consultancy is also selects its own PM from the pool of available PM’s to supervise the project and project team. So far so good :) Consultanc

Elbow is still an asset

Recently I have been drowned in the sea of different tools, gui's etc. The funny thing none of them help you to achieve what you want and sometimes even prevent you from doing so. Back to command line for me. Shell scripting, perl plus elbow crease that is all I need. Love it