Chapter 4 Engagement Challenges

Money is the ultimate leverage for most IT projects. Without adequate financial resources, your WebSphere team won’t be successful in providing quality engineering support for your projects. Without adequately dealing with engagement issues upfront and securing proper financial resources for a project, the subsequent WebSphere work will not have a strong foundation. Therefore, the engagement work is critically important to the WebSphere team.

To the WebSphere team, a good engagement process covers two critical areas: human resource estimates and high-level infrastructure design. Specifically, one of the engagement objectives for the WebSphere team is to ensure that it has adequate financial resources to work ...

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