Don't worry about how a new process or a new system will be maintained -- it's enough to get it up and running.
How to be a great boss: pay attention to the follow through. Make sure your project's future is staffed and funded.
How many times have you seen systems put in place that, two years later, have fallen into complete disrepair?
I could write volumes on this one. Sometimes the project plan is so ambitious that it is only completed through phase 1 or 2, with the rest of the plan left for a future date. However, oftentimes the project is over-engineered in anticipation of the future implementation of phases 3-7, but no one ever gets budget to go beyond phase 2. As a result, all of the overhead has to be maintained, with no payoff.
Worse still, a project is implemented with a variety of workarounds and manual steps in order to get the thing done on time. However, no one ever has the time subsequently to complete it properly and replace those temporary fixes with solid repairs. The process is so painful to follow that the investment of time required to make it work outweighs the benefits.
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