Lessons Learned

Here is a Lessons Learned summary from a recent project. I believe a lot of the issues raised resonate in various projects in various industries.

Project Description:
Client penetration audit tests resulted in a list of varying items that needed to get fixed. These included items such as increasing password strength, implementing session timeouts, etc.

Highlights from the Lessons Learned document:
• Not adequate representation from the business stakeholders. This caused confusion.
• Business should have been engaged earlier. This caused disconnect between IT and the business and re-work was required. The business should have been engaged earlier to make quick decisions to avoid re-work.javascript:void(0)
• Need to periodically revisit our estimates more often, as we went over budget and getting a realistic expectation of actual budget is important
• The Team and the PM did a poor job with the cost estimates related to the impacts of strong password.
• The breadth of a specific requirement seemed to creep throughout the project and caused the need for a change control
• Losing a resource in the middle of the project caused confusion.

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Palm's Revival?

Dovetailing off my last post on replacing the Palm Centro with the Blackberry Curve 8330... maybe I was premature in my decision.

Fresh into the new year, it looks like Palm is making a (dare I say it) final attempt to revive their brand, stock price, and essentially their existence. The Palm PRE was revealed at the 2009 CES conference in Las Vegas.

Here's Engadget's article on it: http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/08/the-palm-pre/

It looks pretty stunning and is stacked with features. Is it better than the iPhone? Difficult to say, but everyone's loving it (including this author) right now.

Check out the pics: http://i.gizmodo.com/5126702/palm-pre-preview-simply-amazing

Again, only available to Sprint right now. No release date scheduled.