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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Anderson)
Fri Sep 24 08:36:35 1999
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Date: Fri, 24 Sep 1999 08:35:22 -0400
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From: Greg Anderson <ganderso@MIT.EDU>
Good morning,
I'm sorry I wasn't able to be with you yesterday.
In reading the reports, my attention was grabbed by Lorraine's
report on Online Credit Card processing:
>Issues:
>- One of our potential vendors - the frontrunner - is getting really antsy.
>There is some risk that they will pull themselves out of the running if we
>don't make a decision soon. This result would be very unfortunate given
>that their product appears to be the best fit both product-wise and
>time-wise.
>
>Regardless off how serious the risk really is, it is an unfortunate fact
>that we (I) have spent a significant amount of time doing vendor management
>that should have been spent doing other project tasks.
>
>That raises the question (and a future meeting topic?): when during the
>discovery project is the right time to engage vendors? When does it help
>to have vendor/industry input early on to add to the data gathering? When
>does it hurt?
She captures well an issue that probably affects many of our projects -
will the Libraries' 3rd Barton project run into similar issues as vendors
are now making presentations? How does this add to Tim's articulation for
working with vendors.
How would you feel about making this the focus for our next meeting - Oct. 7?
Thanks,
Greg
