When you want to review things you cannot understand

We are involved in a project with a weird set of requirements: customer insist on approving all technical documents involved in the project.

Ok, no problem, we have adapted the project plan to deliver them and allow them to check it. If you are able to check it, we have not problem to adopt this approach.

Functional analysis and technical analysis has not been a problem, they were able to review it, to understand it and to provide some feedback about the functionality. Everything approved and we go ahead with next phase: design.

Last week we delivered first 2 design documents, and they still are not approved. Why not? Let’s review some background,

The client teams are composed by a project manager that is not specialized in .NET activities and the end users core team are chemicals that in the past used to develop applications in Visual Basic (this is the reason to be involved in the core team).

I was waiting this point, the project manager was so surprised about this event, but I was waiting for it.

My point of view seeing the people who compose the project team from the customer side is that they have to use the technical and the functional requirements as the maps to go through the application development. It’s supposed they delegate this development to an external company because they don’t need to have this knowledge in their staff.

The good thing was that the RACI matrix was done in the planning phase, so now is easy to identify who should do this. Let’s see how the communications go,

(Astorga, León, Spain)