{"id":962,"date":"2022-08-30T11:47:41","date_gmt":"2022-08-30T18:47:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sqldbpros.com\/wordpress\/?p=962"},"modified":"2022-08-30T11:55:16","modified_gmt":"2022-08-30T18:55:16","slug":"so-you-want-to-your-company-to-buy-a-new-piece-of-software-here-are-the-basic-steps-to-get-what-you-want","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sqldbpros.com\/wordpress\/2022\/08\/so-you-want-to-your-company-to-buy-a-new-piece-of-software-here-are-the-basic-steps-to-get-what-you-want\/","title":{"rendered":"So you want to your company to buy a new piece of software&#8230; Here are the basic steps to get what you want"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"has-x-large-font-size wp-block-heading\">Sections you should include in your project \/ implementation plan<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-heading\">1. Definition of objective \/ Establish Sponsors<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Definition of Problems to solve<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Identify executive sponsors and supporters<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"has-large-font-size wp-block-heading\">2. Requirements gathering<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"has-large-font-size wp-block-heading\">3. Vendor selection &amp; trial<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Sign MNDAs<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Notes: Using the best in class or industry standard should be the default. Deviate from this guidance only if the cost is prohibitive or there is a must have, deal breaker feature that the best in class does not have (which is really unlikely because they are the best in class\u2026)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Avoid trialing more than two tools, trials are extremely time consuming. Be comfortable eliminating tools based on peoples' prior experience with them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Get ballpark pricing from the vendors before the trial. You do not want to trial a tool that is out of your price range.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-heading\">4. Purchase tool<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Security review<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Legal review<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-heading\">5. Migration &amp; Integration<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Includes testing and validation<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Includes data warehouse and reporting changes<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Includes import of data from legacy application<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-heading\">6. Legacy application shutdown<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-heading\">7. Training<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>There may be two pieces here:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Educating on the business objective and the proposed process to reach it (again, the objective is not to get a new tool. The objective is to do something).<\/li><li>Training on the new tool.<\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sections you should include in your project \/ implementation plan 1. Definition of objective \/ Establish Sponsors Definition of Problems to solve Identify executive sponsors and supporters 2. Requirements gathering 3. Vendor selection &amp; trial Sign MNDAs Notes: Using the best in class or industry standard should be the default. Deviate from this guidance only [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sqldbpros.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sqldbpros.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sqldbpros.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sqldbpros.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sqldbpros.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=962"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/sqldbpros.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":970,"href":"http:\/\/sqldbpros.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962\/revisions\/970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sqldbpros.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sqldbpros.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sqldbpros.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}