#balimentosmx

By the serious looks of my team members you can tell what stage of the project we are in now.  This morning we are putting the final touches on our presentation and prepping for our meeting with the BAMX (Banco de Alimentos) host team in the afternoon.  Keep your fingers crossed they agree with the outcome of our findings and recommendations. 

Updates from Sub-team 2 (”BAMX”)

Time is flying....   we are in the middle of week 3 of CSC assignment already!

Since we gained agreement about revising our scope of work with the Director of BAMX last week,  our focus has been on creating recommendations and deliverables. Those will be input for the final presentation to our host organization at the end of our CSC assignment. 

One element of the deliverables was to analyze capabilities for an ERP system, which BAMX is planning to implement across the entire food bank network. We created a catalog of system requirements based on interviews we facilitated with end users at several food banks over the past 2 weeks. Furthermore, we identified gaps of system capabilities in order to establish a baseline for negotiations with the third party vendor. Today, we clarified the analysis via a conference call with the BAMX system team in Mexico City.  The team is now enabled with a fit/gap analysis  and details to discuss with the ERP vendor team.

We received positive feedback about visualizing the requirements from the end-user point of view, to help verify the scope of systematization for each release phases.  Since our exposure to the food bank network and their processes has been limited, it was critical to have these feedback sessions with the BAMX system team, to ensure we have met their needs.

In the afternoon, our team mate Raef Monsour (Tunisia) was the 'Star of the Day' at the food bank.  He was selected to participate in an interview filmed by the IBM Communications crew.  The material will be used as part of IBM's publications to share CSC program values and goals across the world. His performance was right on - being natural, relaxed, knowledgeable and PASSIONATE!

I guess preparing as a team, practicing Q&A with ideas and singing/dancing a Danish song prior, really helped him to relax.   GO TEAM!