Warren S. Reid releases "The RFP Process for Successful Software and Vendor Selection" -- the 5th in his series of "7 IT Success Models".
Simply put, an information technology request for proposal (referred to as RFP) is a formal written document inviting suppliers to submit a proposal on a specific commodity or services. The RFP PROCESS is a bidding process that leverages a company's negotiating ability and purchasing power with suppliers. It brings structure, analysis and more precision to the procurement decision and, if done correctly, flushes out the risks and benefits upfront. It benefits from input from a wide range of functional, performance and subject matter experts – which helps ensure the chosen solution will suit the company's strategy, short/long-term business objectives, and functional, performance and maintenance requirements.
Warren S. Reid has created an RFP SUCCESS MODEL that takes you through the foundational steps, the preliminary selection, “best” candidate selection and the meeting of the minds processes, culminating with an IT contract(s) that allocates risks, embraces and enforces proven SCLC methodologies, and incentivizes all parties to continue to perform.
September 2009:
WSRConsulting Group, LLC makes its "IT Litigation and Bad Contracts that Foster Failure"slides&companion materialsavailable free!"
Attorneys wishing to view a video of the 3.5 presentation given jointly by Warren S. Reid and Attorney Steven Brower for MCLE Credit may find it on thewww.attorneycredits.com website.
It outlines a "Systems Approach to IT Contracting"that, based on their own personal experiences and expertise, better serves many IT contract purposes. This approach quite thoroughly flushes out and documents the responsibilities and risks each party is willing (and able) to accept and the deliverables / deliverable quality each party will produce and approve, how to get a project back on track, and the renedies for failure to deliver.
Done properly with dedicated IT Contracting Teams, this approach to IT Contracting will generally produce:
(a) much better contracts,
(b) stronger long term working relationships between the parties that can be very helpful if and when a disputes arise, and,
(c) more understanding and control over planning, developing, and managing IT systems and project: estimates; schedules; staffing; progress awareness and reporting; functional AND performance requirements (scope creep); better testing regiments; quality assurance; project specific risks and stakeholder expectations.
WSRcg has been engaged by one of the world's largest hotel and casino companies to review their new systems efforts.
"Warren S. Reid accepts invitation to present to Canada's Deputy Ministers in a closed circuit meeting on May 22, 2009!"
On May 22, 2009, Warren S. Reid, IT expert, and two hand-picked IT lawyers will present to The Government of Canada's most senior executives in the Procurement Ministry and Treasury Board [i.e., "Public Works & Government Services Canada" ( PWGSC )]. They have been asked to speak on "IT Procurement & Project Risk Management" in Ottawa. Since Warren's oldest son Alex will be getting married later that day, Warren will conference into the session.
Warren will focus on 3 of his IT SUCCESS Models
1. "Riskipedia 2.0 -- Failure Factors That Fly Under the Radar: Hidden, Yet Debilitating Software Project Cripplers! This presentation discusses why, after 25 years of knowing exactly “Why Systems Fail?”["He Said ... She Said Model"] -- only 2/3 of large scale systems projects today still come in late, over budget, under-functioning or scrapped altogether? Warren explores what we likely have all missed!
2. "Requirements Elicitation: Why So Difficult -- Still?" Requirements are nasty, difficult, changing, and unknown – if you get them wrong at the start of the project, you are in big trouble. So, one more time – but with different emphasis – how can we do a better job in this elusive, oftentimes frustrating, people-heavy area!
3. "IT Contracts: Allocating Risks Properly and Effectively!" IT contracts serve many purposes-- but they are primarily to flush out and document the responsibilities and risks each party is willing (and able) to take and the deliverables each will produce. Done properly, with contracting teams consisting of a CXO, CFO, the IT Project Champion and Project Manager, and an attorney (hopefully one with IT expertise) can generally produce much better: (a) contracts, (b) long term working relationships that can be very helpful if and when a disputes arise, an, (3) more understanding and control over managing budgets, schedules, the scope of functionality, quality assurance, project specific risks and stakeholder expectations.
“WSR Consulting Group, LLC
Opens Its "Learning Center for IT Excellence"
We envision and position this webspace to be a place where:
the leading scholars, researchers and practitioners in IT today and in the future,
can introduce new ideas, models, processes and challenges
that will spark discussion, thought, disagreement and advancements
in the software/systems development, implementation, management, contracting and litigation arenas of Information technology.
Mr. Warren S. Reid is happy to open this new portion of WSRcg’s website with his“Four IT Success Models”.
This is our ultimate reality show: "Real people! Real stories! Real trials! Real Lessons!
WSR Consulting Group, LLC reports a few of our latest developments:
WSR Consulting Group, LLC has been engaged by one of the world's largest hotel and casino companies to review their new systems efforts.
Warren S. Reid, Managing Director, has been engaged as a testifying expert witness using computer forensic investigations in a death row matter.
Randy Brown, Senior Manager, will be testifying in a complex HIPAA matter.
Warren S. Reid and Lubomyr Chabursky, Senior Manager are working on a matter involving the fairness and accuracy of disclosures in a Prospectus for a bond offering given the status of the issuer's IT applications, organization & infrastructure. Either one, or both will be testifying experts
Elyse Gura, Manager, has recently become associated with WSR Consulting Group, LLC as a Manager in IT Consulting and Project Management. We are thrilled to have her on board.
Ms Gura has more than 20 years of hands-on implementation-oriented management information technology consulting, corporate IT management and Professional Services leadership experience. She has planned and executed large-scale ERP implementations, rollouts and upgrades, focusing on effective planning, communications, and risk management. She has very special expertise in Oracle ERP. Ms Gura has served as an IT Director leading upgrade stabilization, SOX compliance and package selection projects. She has built, led and/or turned around international IT Professional Services organizations for mid- to large-size software vendors and management consulting firms. ITIL V3 trained, B.A., M.B.A.
It’s fresh, relevant, sometimes irreverent, informative, and fun! We invite your comments, posts, feedback and recommendations to make it something you’ll want to bookmark as a “Favorite”.
We will finish several IT and IP related cases that may very well get to trial this year including matters covering HIPPA rules, lack of proper estimating and project management methodologies in very large-scale system implementations, fraudulent practices by giant ERP providers. We are also in discussions with alleged system failures outside of the United States.
Randy Brown, a Senior Manager who has worked with WSR Consulting Group, LLC on litigation and IT turnaround for almost 15 years, will be testifying in one matter, and Warren S. Reid will testify in two others (Federal and State Courts).
Warren S. Reid is continuing and expanding his guest lecturing role at the University of Southern California's graduate school program in software engineering on “The Business & IT Sides of Software Project Contracting: Knowing what to do can save your project, your company, and your career!” on April 18, 2008.
Warren Reid will continue to guest lecture at the Southwestern University School of Law in Los Angeles presenting very practical concerns and issues in modern IT and systems development, implementation and maintenance/support contracts, and also kicking off a new case study re WEB 2.0, ERP, e-commerce, and bhttp://www.swlaw.edu/academics/course_listings/course_details/50ack office system integration issues, among others, to enrich the students’ learning experience. http://www.swlaw.edu/academics/course_listings/course_details/50
Warren Reid’s provocative “He Said … She Said” thought piece has been presented, discussed, published and quoted myriad times in the past several years in North America, Europe, Middle East and Asia. It has been used in U.S. and foreign court jurisdictions as well. He has updated it, once again and added his “ -abilities ” construct to the model in a very short thought piece guaranteed to make you laugh (because you have seen these failures or have been guilty of these failures yourself so many times) and cry (because you have seen these failures or have been guilty of these failures yourself so many times) entitled, “Why Do Systems & Software Projects Fail? 2007” that you can find on the HG Experts Legal Experts page at http://www.hgexperts.com/hg/legalarticle-software-projects.asp.
Warren Reid is one of the five speakers (along with a Federal Court judge, a Superior Court judge, an appellate court lawyer, and a well known litigator) presenting to in-house counsel members of the Association of Corporate Counsel (ACCA - Southern California). Mr. Reid’s talk is entitled: “Looking for Mr./Ms. “Right: Selecting the right expert! Selecting the right counsel! Anecdotal Lessons from large-scale systems failure disputes”, as part of the three hours seminar entitled.
The seminar is hosted by the law firm of Buckhalter & Nemer and is entitled: “How to Win Your Case Without Losing your Shirt!”
MBASE stands for “ Model-Based System Architecting & Software Engineering” developed over several years at the University of Southern California in a project led by world renowned Software Engineering PhD Program Chair, Professor Barry Boehm.
Warren Reid recently added his thoughts and experiences to the model regarding hidden conflicts and different/competing goals, priorities and/or objectives that oftentimes exist within each software development/implementation project constituency (i.e., Acquirers, Vendors, Users, and IT Departments) that can surely cripple large-scale systems projects and implementations if not uncovered and addressed early.
Warren S. Reid has been asked to present at two CIO Practical Learning Seminar meetings in July 2008 and August 2008 Los Angeles. He will talk on “An Inconvenient Lesson: What To Do IF WHEN Your Company Is Sued Over Its Next System Project Implementation!
The materials for these Learning Seminars are being prepared now – but you are invited to review:
Warren Reid’s provocative “He Said … She Said” thought piece has been presented, discussed, published and quoted myriad times in the past several years in North America, Europe, Middle East and Asia. It has been used in U.S. and foreign court jurisdictions as well. He has updated it, once again and added his “-abilities” construct to the model in a very short thought piece guaranteed to make you laugh (because you have seen these failures or have been guilty of these failures yourself so many times) and cry (because you have seen these failures or have been guilty of these failures yourself so many times) entitled, “Why Do Systems & Software Projects Fail? 2007” that you can find on the HG Experts Legal Experts page at http://www.hgexperts.com/hg/legalarticle-software-projects.asp.
Warren Reid keynotes at the 8th Annual Southern California Coalition Technology Conference (SCCTC) Long Beach, CA – Saturday, August 25, 2007. Warren Reid’s Keynote Speech, “CPR (Cooperative Project Recovery): Reviving the Drowning Large-Scale IT Project”, introduces you to Mr. Reid's tested 4-tier, 13 step model which focuses on the actions that must be taken to turn around, overcome and compensate for deficiencies in project management, methodology, technology, and people in live projects -- before you scrap the project, fire your staff, and/or move to litigation!
SCCTC was created by a coalition of the Southern Californian Project Management Institute (PMI), the Quality Assurance Institute (QAI) and the Association of IT Professionals (AITP) to create a forum of interest to all IT professionals at all points of the systems development life cycle, from project conception through development, testing and into project closeout.
WSR Consulting Group, LLC specializes in the areas of: Computer Failure and Software Failure Litigation and Expert Witness Testimony . Computer Crisis & Software Project Turnaround and Information Technology Consulting . Technology & Software Intellectual Property Disputes & Misappropriation . Internet litigation. We provide computer expert witnesses, expert deposition and expert testimony. Our computer and software experts and consultants specialize in: computer system and software analysis . software project management & estimation . software project quality assurance . computer software selection . system and software requirements gathering & design . software development & coding . computer system and software testing & defect management . data base, data warehouse & file conversions . computer system and software implementation, go-live and maintenance activities . computer system and software failure analysis and root causes. These services are performed for Enterprise Resource Planning ( ERP ) systems, CRM systems, manufacturing and distribution systems and software, commercial applications, POS (Point Of Sale) systems, ticketing systems, government and military systems and software, MIS based systems and more. We have been designated and/or testified as computer failure experts, software failure experts, system failure experts, ERP failure experts, ERP system experts, software project failure experts, system development life cycle (SDLC) methodology experts, software implementation methodology experts, systems integration methodology experts, software project management experts, system valuation and software company valuation experts, and IP experts in U.S., Canadian, Asian, and European courts.
WSR Consulting Group, LLC provides expert analysis re: software project estimates, computer project staffing, software project management and progress reporting . compliance with applicable commercial and industry standards & methodology (including PMBOK, SWEBOK, IEEE, ISO-9000, Mil-Spec standards, METHOD/1, Big-4 standards) . cost-to-complete analysis . software defect management systems . system, performance and functional testing, and tuning . scope creep and scope change analysis . schedule delay analysis . IT best practices . consultants use of best practices, consulting industry standards, consultants software development methodologies . consultants' ethics
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