{"id":2774,"date":"2014-03-07T14:36:56","date_gmt":"2014-03-07T18:36:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.acarlstein.com\/?p=2774"},"modified":"2014-03-07T16:56:41","modified_gmt":"2014-03-07T20:56:41","slug":"common-questions-for-new-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.acarlstein.com\/?p=2774","title":{"rendered":"Common Questions for New Projects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The following are some useful questions that you may wish to review before starting a project.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>How often is the project going to be maintained?<\/li>\n<li>Is there a developing\/Testing environment available?<\/li>\n<li>Where do I access to this particular information?<\/li>\n<li>Who have this particular information?<\/li>\n<li>How do I access to this particular information?<\/li>\n<li>Whom I have to talk to?<\/li>\n<li>Who made the decision?<\/li>\n<li>Is this the best solution for this problem?<\/li>\n<li>Are there backups?<\/li>\n<li>Is there a backup system that we can use before starting working on the project?<\/li>\n<li>Who is going to assign the roles and responsibilities?<\/li>\n<li>Are all team members familiar with the project?<\/li>\n<li>Are parameters of the project unlikely to change?<\/li>\n<li>Is this a large project team?<\/li>\n<li>Is the project process thoroughly documented?<\/li>\n<li>Is the project manager experienced in other project methodologies?<\/li>\n<li>What are we getting ourselves into?<\/li>\n<li>What impact is going to be?<\/li>\n<li>What are their expectations from the project?<\/li>\n<li>What are their expectations from us?<\/li>\n<li>Where is the list of TODOs located?<\/li>\n<li>What is going to be involved in maintain the solution?<\/li>\n<li>Are they maintaining and we are just configuring?<\/li>\n<li>Are we just going to administrator and maintain this project?<\/li>\n<li>Are we taking over this project?<\/li>\n<li>Do you understand that system administration is not an operation?<\/li>\n<li>This is too generic. Would you mind to explain exactly what is your expectation from us?<\/li>\n<li>What do you exactly need us to do?<\/li>\n<li>Where does it say in the document?<\/li>\n<li>What are we purchasing?<\/li>\n<li>Who is trained on this?<\/li>\n<li>Is this the way we really work?<\/li>\n<li>Am I involved in this project?<\/li>\n<li>Who is involved in this project?<\/li>\n<li>Can we break this in chunks?<\/li>\n<li>How much do we know is going to take if we don\u2019t know what is going to be implemented?<\/li>\n<li>Would be this be sufficient and not customizations would be required?<\/li>\n<li>How is going to be maintained?<\/li>\n<li>How do they put the extended functionality?<\/li>\n<li>For how long the extended functionality would be available?<\/li>\n<li>How much times do they except us to put on it?<\/li>\n<li>How much do they charge us? It is too low or too high?<\/li>\n<li>How much do we charge them? It is too low or too high?<\/li>\n<li>What are we signing on?<\/li>\n<li>Are we going to be the administrator of this system?<\/li>\n<li>Are we going to be the developers of this system?<\/li>\n<li>Are we going to be the administrator and developers on this system?<\/li>\n<li>Who are we making these questions for?<\/li>\n<li>Is the process map out?<\/li>\n<li>What do they need to know and want to hear?<\/li>\n<li>What&#8217;s their preferred way of receiving information?<\/li>\n<li>What may prevent them from listening to what you have to say?<\/li>\n<li>How will you know that they got the message?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<script>\nvar zbPregResult = '0';\n<\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following are some useful questions that you may wish to review before starting a project. How often is the project going to be maintained? Is there a developing\/Testing environment available? Where do I access to this particular information? Who have this particular information? How do I access to this particular information? 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