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About PracticalCSM

Rick Adams is an independent author, trainer and consultant, specializing in helping technology companies deliver measurable business value for their customers. Adams has over 25 years’ experience of working in the IT industry, including owning his own startup software-as-a-service business which he sold in 2012 to focus on writing, training and consulting. Having delivered his services to many hundreds of businesses and thousands of technology professionals in over 30 countries across four continents, Adams is now based in the rural west coast of Ireland where he lives with his two dogs Zeus and Terri.

Promised and Anticipated Value

An overview of what happens during Practical CSM Framework Phase Six: Value Realization and why it is essential for CSMs to understand both what value has been promised to the customer and what additional value the customer desires to attain. Promised and Anticipated Value

Adoption Project Completion

An explanation as to what needs to be done at the end of the adoption implementation process in order to ensure customer stakeholders are satisfied with the results and that the customer can now commence value realization activities. Includes discussion on gaining sign off from the customer. Adoption Project Completion: Sign Off Adoption [...]

Adoption Task Management Tools Part 2

Part one of two, dealing with adoption task management. This part explains how CPM (critical path method) can be applied to an adoption implementation to determine the critical path through the implementaiton project in order to calculate total duration. It also discusses how to combine WBS with CPM to enable high quality project [...]

Adoption Task Management Tools Part 1

Part one of two, dealing with adoption task management. This part provides an overview of adoption task management and explains how to use WBS (work breakdown structure) to determine what tasks need to be completed and in what order to complete them. Adoption Task Management Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)