Sure Step Methodology

tinoruijs

Hi,

Have you ever used Sure Step Methodology?
Which parts did you find usefull?
What are the pros and cons?

tinoruijs

I guess the answers are no, no idea and no idea...


Too bad either there are no Dutch templates.

Waldo

we have been looking into it, but haven't implemented it in our way of working (yet). For more info: Plataan knows a lot about it.

This blog article might be interesting as well:
http://plataan.typepad.com/microsoftdynamics/2008/02/new-sure-step-m.html

tinoruijs

Waldo wrote:

we have been looking into it, but haven't implemented it in our way of working (yet). For more info: Plataan knows a lot about it.

This blog article might be interesting as well:
http://plataan.typepad.com/microsoftdynamics/2008/02/new-sure-step-m.html

Thanks Eric! I'll have look at it.

alpap64

Surestep is a nice framework and certainly helps to outline the basic steps in delivering projects. The overall slide of the process is useful as it encapsulates what needs to be done.

You need to pick and choose which aspects are useful for the project you are managing at any moment in time.

Although I use the outline and high level aspect of sure step as a project management tool I have never used or seen it used successfully in its entirety.

The Sure Step methodology was bourne out of work done by Saleworks who were allied with Aston (Now Tectura) in 2000-2003 timeframe and which tried to introduce a Project Management Framework more as part of the sales process rather than a serious tool for Project development.

Sure Step serves a purpose, but if you are like me and have used Prince 2, SSADM, ITIL and other methodologies, Sure Step is lacking in the toolset that these other methodologies excel at.

Finally, I have to re-iterate, you need to pick the best approach for the project you are working on, sometime Surestep tools combined with some others will give you just the right result - no framework or tools available work well for everyone and every Dynamics implmentation. The skill is knowing what to when when.

Hope that helps.

Alex

tinoruijs

alpap64 wrote:

Surestep is a nice framework and certainly helps to outline the basic steps in delivering projects. The overall slide of the process is useful as it encapsulates what needs to be done.

You need to pick and choose which aspects are useful for the project you are managing at any moment in time.

Although I use the outline and high level aspect of sure step as a project management tool I have never used or seen it used successfully in its entirety.

The Sure Step methodology was bourne out of work done by Saleworks who were allied with Aston (Now Tectura) in 2000-2003 timeframe and which tried to introduce a Project Management Framework more as part of the sales process rather than a serious tool for Project development.

Sure Step serves a purpose, but if you are like me and have used Prince 2, SSADM, ITIL and other methodologies, Sure Step is lacking in the toolset that these other methodologies excel at.

Finally, I have to re-iterate, you need to pick the best approach for the project you are working on, sometime Surestep tools combined with some others will give you just the right result - no framework or tools available work well for everyone and every Dynamics implmentation. The skill is knowing what to when when.

Hope that helps.

Alex

Thanks for your reaction Alex!
I'll pick the usefull things out.