Tuesday 4 November 2008

Demanding Dennis

Project Dennis has a lot of requirements. At present, there are 12 categories, 50 sub-categories and 123 specific deliverable requirements, most of which are being carefully considered by 3 of the 4 short-listed developers we screened over the last few days. We await their quotes/proposals for our prototype Alpha-site with great anticipation.

Developer #4 was labouring under the misapprehension that we would be flying our assigned project manager back and forth between London and New Dehli for face-to-face project meetings. Pensez encore un fois, mon ami. This, combined with the fact that the "business development manager" didn't take a single written note during our 2 hour+ meeting resulted in a courteous email indicating that we wouldn't be pursuing things further.

Interestingly, they were also the only one to request that we sign their own NDA as well as ours. Weird, since we heard nothing worth disclosing even if we wanted to.

Proposals due cob Friday. Watch this space...

10 comments:

Anonymous said...

SB has one of those NDA's you know.
Non Dealing Arrangement.
Maybe you got the wrong kind of NDA?

Somnambulist said...

@udh - If I have the wrong NDA, then SB has the wrong DNA.

Can I suggest that we get everyone to sign a Non-Dossing Agreement?

Daddy Papersurfer said...

If life was easy, we'd all be alive .........

Somnambulist said...

@DP - how profound. But then of course, if we were all alive I am not sure life would be so easy. Therein lies the chicken and the amoeba conundrum.

Anonymous said...

I searched "Project Dennis" on your blog and found several posts but remain none the wiser.

Is "Dennis" meant to be hidden, oblique or am I just a bit dim?

Andrew Goulding

Somnambulist said...

@laog - I don't think anyone could accuse you of being dim!

Project Dennis is the working name for our start up (see atigerinafrica.com), and one of the reasons for starting this blog - although of course I post a lot of unrelated rubbish as well.

A keen-eyed observer will notice a smattering of Monty Python references, and Dennis is named after the repressed peasant in MP&THG. Mainly because I wasn't allowed to use Dinsdale or Spiny Norman.

Hope that clears everything up...

Anonymous said...

Dennis now cleared up. "And that, my liege, is how we know the Earth to be banana-shaped."

Andrew Goulding

Anonymous said...

Re: atigerinafrica.com

Interesting but oblique. I look forward to discovering more.

Andrew Goulding

Somnambulist said...

Just as well the next US President derives his power from a mandate from the masses, rather than some farcical acquatic ceremony.

We'll be at liberty to releasing more details on Dennis once the developer has been selected and the project is under way.

Incidentally, we will be looking for some test guinea pigs too...!

Somnambulist said...

"release more detail..." even