Best Practices & Inspiration for Product Managers & Leaders
In Part 1, I shared my criteria for selecting a great Project Manager. Once you have the criteria, how do you identify all those traits during the interview process? Below is an approach I’ve used successfully for many years.
Hiring a great Project Manager is critical, especially when this new team member will lead many of your software initiatives. They help prioritize tasks, interface with stakeholders and overall, drive a project to completion. But how do you find a great one?
So far in this Vendor Contract series, we talked about T&M (Part 2) and Fixed Price (Part 3) SOWs. In this last post, I describe two final contract types that you can’t afford to miss: Retainer and Staffing SOWs.
Now that you are familiar with T&M SOWs, let’s look at Fixed Price SOWs. This is probably the most common type of contract for bigger software engagements. Whether you are the Client or Vendor, you don’t want to miss the key watchouts in this post.
In the first part of this series, I shared a primer on NDAs, MSAs, SOWs and COs. In Part 2, I’ll dive deeper into Time and Materials contracts – their pros and cons and things to look for during negotiations.
In this series, I’ll discuss the key areas in contract negotiations that Product Managers need to know. I’ll describe the basic contracts you’ll encounter (NDA, MSA, SOW and CO) and key watchouts from both the Client and Vendor perspective.
In Part 1, I discussed some of the preparations you’ll need when choosing a software vendor for design or development. In this post, I dive into actually selecting the vendor and what you can expect once you do.