Background
The client needed to upgrade its news and advertising platforms. The newspaper purchased two software packages, a Content Management System (CMS) and an ad platform and needed to integrate the two.
Key Challenges
- Creating requirements documents that synced the vendor’s capabilities with the needs of the newspaper.
- Manage two vendors with competing agendas and priorities.
- Manage client’s resources with competing priorities.
- Constant change in management.
- Ensuring vendors delivered software and features on time.
- Bring together the heads of various departments to get a consensus on requirements.
- Eliminate scope creep.
Solution
Implemented the software with consensus from multiple units of the business, including finance, advertising, news desk, and IT.
From The Customer
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