When does a project begin? For many ideas the first place that it becomes a written record is a change request. It may be lost in a help desk ticket that is closed as “by design” leaving the user a brick wall of confusion. It may be lost in a former colleague’s inbox as a question from a crucial business partners wishing that your departments could work together better.
Did you requests come in a pile or a stack?
Where did your project start?
How did it find its way into the budget process?
Tomorrow we’ll take some time to think about how the budget was set, but for today look back at the start and consider:
Who should have been there?
What risks were missing?
What other groups could use your new process? Program? Building?
What happened to the postponed change requests from the previous release? Year?
Those who were overlooked in the past could be the key to your future success.
Here are some resources to help you look at your budget process in a new light:
Controling Change – change request basics
Budgets are a Guess - what happens when there is no intake process just ideas and stuff being done lots of great comments
Take Control, Change Control – change control and budget controls translated to new car buying process
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November 5, 2008 at 1:53 pm
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