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Outsourcing and augmenting staff with experts can be an avenue for meeting business needs which are not available internally. However, depending on the type of solution and service being outsourced, these relationships may actually increase the demands on your organisation. This article highlights six key questions you should answer before outsourcing, and eight things you should keep in mind while writing the contract.
Why is there resistance to change? Are people just naturally perverse, or if their concerns are understood and correctly dealt with, will then create the buy-in required to turn resisters into supporters?
Outsourcing is the process of contracting a third party to do work on the behalf of a client that has neither the skills or resources to perform in-house. It is usually more cost effective to contract out work than to hire someone in to complete the project in question.
In a perfect world every project would be "on time and within budget." But reality tells a very different story. Even if the budget and schedule are met, one must ask "did the project deliver the results and quality we expected?" True project success must be evaluated on all three components. Otherwise, a project could be considered a "failure."
Project management is a tough role. You often find yourself being pulled between keeping users, subordinates, team members and senior people happy. Given these demands, what do the best project managers do that makes them stand out from the crowd?
In project management, we tend to focus on the method. And there is no shortage of methods (Six Sigma, Scrum, Waterfall). The method is the what of project management and is often at the core of an effectively run project. But the method can only take your project so far.
Our guide to using interim managers: What does it mean and why make use of them?
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