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An interesting and useful insight from Max Klein:
The subtleties in outsourcing using RentACoder

What project controls does a digital project manager use and maintain? Here is a list of project documents and controls which I’ve used in my line of work.

The all-governing document is typically the Statement of Work (SOW). This forms a binding agreement between the service company (agency) and the client. These should be written in a plain English style shunning technical terms and buzzwords. It acts as the overall framework for how the project hangs together, when things happen and what exactly they are.

The SOW document includes:

• project overview,
• background,
• business requirements,
• assumptions,
• dependencies,
• exclusions,
• start/end dates,
• milestones,
• project phases,
• client contacts,
• client approvals,
• fixed list of deliverables,
• list of items in scope/out of scope,
• known issues and risks,
• signatures,
• payment details

Read more Project Controls…

Recruiters that don’t take no for an answer are frustrating. Especially when you kindly ask them to remove your details from their databases.

Here are a few of the guilty parties than constantly email with jobs that are not relevant. Notice how most of them come from one company:

Sara Clark s.clark@timothyjamesconsulting.com
Ben Gill b.gill@timothyjamesconsulting.com
Richard Haggarty richard@timothyjamesconsulting.com
Rory Mullins r.mullins@timothyjamesconsulting.com
Christine Christodoulou christine@timothyjamesconsulting.com
Dan Wardle d.wardle@timothyjamesconsulting.com
Wakeford, Andrew andrew.Wakeford@hays.com
Damian Chana dchana@rethink-recruitment.com

[Update 04/04/2010]
Paul Fraser paul.fraser@ecrmpeople.com

[Update 15/04/2010]
Katie Lennon katie@ecomrecruitment.com

[Update 23/04/2010]
Lucy Haslam lhaslam@itrecsolutions.co.

[Update 11/05/2010]
Jonathan Swithinbank j.swithinbank@timothyjamesconsulting.com

The famous sign…found by accident.