Critical work in your organization is directly tied to the fate of your software vendors. So when PeopleSoft buys J.D. Edwards or Oracle attempts a hostile takeover of PeopleSoft, you are understandably nervous. Your nervousness usually does not stem from your love of PeopleSoft, J.D. Edwards or Oracle, but because the future of the software products you use everyday to run your business is now questionable at best and in jeopardy at worst. The potential buyers reassure you with promises of long term support and future product enhancements. But would you bet your own money on these promises?
When you invest in a major IT project, you expect significant value. If you didn't, you wouldn't start the project. At some level you know that achieving the value is not going to be risk free. Here's the $64,000 question. Is the value worth the risk? Many IT software vendors would prefer you think only about the value and not about the risk. Their sales process may not include helping you understand the risks you will have to manage to gain the value.
Project work is all about things, right? It's about requirements and specifications. Selecting the technologies to use. Making sure the technical work fulfills the business needs and product definition. Project schedules and budgets and ship dates and installation plans. But is it possible that project work is also about people connecting and working with people?
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