Signatures Inc. specializes in producing personalized productssuch as coffee mugs and pens with company logos. The companygenerates over $40 million in annual revenues and has more than 300employees. The company is in the middle of a largemultimillion-dollar SCM implementation, and it has just hired yourproject management outsourcing firm to take over the projectmanagement efforts.
On your first day, your team is told that the project is failingfor the following reasons:
- The project is using the traditional waterfallmethodology.
- The SDLC was not followed and the developers decided to skipthe testing phase.
- A project plan was developed during the analysis phase, but theold project manager never updated or followed the plan.
Determine what your first steps would be to get this projectback on track. Why?
Respond to two of your peers. Do you agree with their choice?Why or why not?
What obstacles might they encounter?