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I have been in Michael Kors as a project executive for 3 years. I have been involved in over 20 projects in the past 3 years, which contain Enterprise Resource Planning, POS and Business Intelligence projects. I want to talk something about project management.
A software project has 4 phases, which are initialing, planning, executing and closing.
In the initialing phase, project managers and project team members need to collect requirements from users through 2-3 rounds of business interview. Usually, these requirements mainly focus on business work flows. Vendors, who need to implement these requirements using technical methods, usually don’t understand business work flows clearly in a company. They need project managers to translate these requirements and double confirm them during a project. A qualified pm should understand both the business work flows and technical methods and can also describe them using a language which both users and vendors can understand them from their own way.
The second phase is planning. Companies which need a system usually provide limited budget for IT projects. Project managers should select proper vendors to make sure their planning will meet business requirements. It is not a simple work. Although some vendor can provide higher quality project controllers, software engineers and testers, they will also provide you a higher software service fee. It is a hard thing that project managers select a high quality vendor and keep the project expense in the budget at the same time.
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Your Edited Email

I‘ve been at Michael Kors as a project executive for 3 years. I have been involved in more than 20 projects over in the past 3 years, including Enterprise Resource Planning, POS and Business Intelligence projects. I want to talk something about project management.
A software project has 4 phases, which are initializing?, planning, executing and closing.
In the initializing? phase, project managers and project team members need to collect requirements from users through 2-3 rounds of business interviews. Usually, these requirements mainly focus on business workflows. Vendors, who need to implement these requirements using technical methods, usually don’t understand business workflows clearly in a company. They need project managers to translate these requirements and double confirm them during a project. A qualified pm should understand both the business workflows and technical methods and can also describe them using a language which both users and vendors can understand them from their own way.
The second phase is planning. Companies which need a system usually provide a limited budget for IT projects. Project managers should select proper vendors to make sure their planning will meet business requirements. It is not a simple work task. Although some vendors can provide higher quality project controllers, software engineers and testers, they will also charge you a higher software service fee. It is a hard thing that for project managers to select a high quality vendor and keep the project expenses in the budget at the same time.
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