Analytic Hierarchy Process
I am jumping back just briefly to pass on a follow-up tidbit to our post on developing a comparison chart. You may want to take a step beyond that and come up with a more analytical process. One of our clients mentioned that they went through an Analytic Hierarchy Process to make their software selection. Essentially, that involves prioritizing or weighting the different criteria that you use to evaluate project management software. You use these priorities to assign numerical values to the different criteria. In other words, it becomes more analytical then emotional.
This helps you to determine which criteria are more important to you, and how two systems stack up against each other in terms of the more important criteria.
I am not going to delve into the ins and outs of how to do this. Others have already done that, so let me give you some links to some helpful resources if you want to take a more complex approach:
Wikipedia's Entry on Analytic Hierarchy Process
An Article by iSix Sigma Magazine
A "Miscellaneous" Tutorial by Kardi Teknomo, PhD.
This helps you to determine which criteria are more important to you, and how two systems stack up against each other in terms of the more important criteria.
I am not going to delve into the ins and outs of how to do this. Others have already done that, so let me give you some links to some helpful resources if you want to take a more complex approach:
Wikipedia's Entry on Analytic Hierarchy Process
An Article by iSix Sigma Magazine
A "Miscellaneous" Tutorial by Kardi Teknomo, PhD.
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