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Chaos to Calm
In today’s technology-driven services landscape, conflicted or troubled software delivery engagements continue to arise, whether caused by solution fit problems and scope disagreement, delivery delays, budget blowouts or resource quality. Solving these conflicts or contract disputes are critical for businesses to deliver mutual good outcomes and build good and ongoing commercial relationships. NZIAC Panel Mediator… Read more
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International Webinar – Moderation
This is a highlight of my 4-year research and design initiative, I moderated an international webinar, hosted and streamed from the new NZIAC ADR centre in Auckland, New Zealand. Its theme “Managing the Chaos and Conflict of Software Projects”. It was my pleasure and privilege to be joined by: The webinar can be viewed here. Read more
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Procurement & Supply Australasia (PASA) Thought Leadership – Publication
In 2022 I had the opportunity to share with an Australasian procurement professional audience a 2-part series that set out my research and design initiative with NZIAC. You can access this easily readable content at the following links: Read more
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Contract Modules – Publication
In q3 2022, the Contract Modules were formally launched and published at the NZIAC website.They are available for incorporation in Agile or Waterfall (or hybrid) software development contracts. In relation to the: Read more
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A new path through familiar roadblocks to reset software project endeavour
Have you experienced the challenges of software project delay and disagreement as to cause and responsibility? Then you are not alone. The long-standing Chaos reports by the Standish Group analysed at scale software projects globally and concluded software project success rates are approximately 30%, 50% are challenged and 20% fail. In 20 years’ advisory experience… Read more
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The CIO’s path to ‘unlock, resolve, reset’ a misaligned software project
I was recently interviewed by the New Zealand editor of CIO Insider (an IDG publication), Divina Paredes, concerning a customised mediation process for SaaS (software as a service) engagement disputes. You can read the full article here . Read more
After 15 or so years in international markets supporting software enterprise project negotiations and
remediations Gerard was determined to explore and understand the causes of misalignment and emerging
conflict in software projects and endeavour to create early intervention processes to solve conflict and reset
software projects for success.