The Team

The client team is made up of people across the company. The project manager comes from the IT group with a strong background in ERP systems. It is clear from working with him that his experience with ERP frames everything. Every issue or problem that comes up is related to “the way we do it with our ERP upgrade.”

The client needed to be reminded constantly that experience with ERP system implementation is relevant to EPM implementations only to the extent that it requires managing financial data. The users are often different pools, and the project definitions, milestones, testing approach, and methodology are all completely different. Applying an ERP methodology to EPM systems often creates unnecessary conflict and increases costs, ...

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