The project / Alvin Riddle

Corporate initiative for phase implementation of the department's primary sales system dubbed S.T.A.G.E.

Gotta book some facetime with the major stakeholders to ensure all interested parties are on the same page.

So I ping Jim Hoggart to block an hour in Lynn's schedule to review the current language in the initial client spec.

We go over best practices, run some figures, schedule break-out sessions, and reply with a request for a proof of concept.

Then I get a call from edit who has concerns of bandwidth so I spearhead an inquiry of resources in-house.

It's escalated to mission critical and leveraged to Barry who calls a meeting that I decline with the click of a mouse.

Phase 1 is nothing more than requirement gathering in hopes of effectively addressing the low hanging fruit.

Shouldn't take more than a week but I allow a full month in order to get sign off from the big-shot suits.

Phase 2 has twelve action items, half of which are not scalable, so I, with a full plate, declare a reach of critical mass.

This raises red flags so I have to take it offline and whiteboard it out out which is a pain in the ass.

Phase 3 is contingent on due diligence from production who must scrub the data and expedite process flow.

This dovetails into Phase 4 and the official baton pass to sales but not before we verify that our ducks are in a row.

I make it clear that system is by no means turnkey so we keep on a staff in case things go awry.

But at the end of the day the net result is growth, the net-net of which is an upshoot in your ROI.