Abyss of Fatigue V2

Saturday, November 08, 2008

Pou pou sou (proposal)


Before joining this position, I could never imagine so much of workload could ever exist. Remember those TVB series where staffs in corporate giants are tasked to prepare a proposal for a project?

The initial plan has to be drawn up and you will invite people from various department. Securing human resources is not an easy task, a typical team will consist about 20 person with 4-5 core roles.

This is where everyone will fly in to support the project. If they are not able to fly in, they will be supporting remotely.

The proposal will cover every single details of a multi-million project. Equipment details, network plan, function list, implementation plan, radio frequency planning, maintenance, training, warranties, managed services, etc etc. The list could go on forever. Owh ya, how could I forget pricing.

All of these will then be compiled. Imagine 8 rings of hard cover 2" folder, that's the amount of document that we usually prepare. A typical time frame of 1 month will be given to us but I've experienced 2 weeks of getting it done before.

After submission, clarification will ensue. Mountains of question will be bombarded and some are so detailed that you need help from R&D. Concurrently, price negotiation will be conducted. Sometimes we have to ship in millions of equipment to prepare for a demo to them which adds to the workload.

When they are done with evaluating and decides to go with us, we have to prepare the contract documents. Contract will be about double the amount of hard cover folders as whatever is submitted previously has to be inside and new ones as well.

Lawyers will be a pain in the ass as our wordings has to be "proper".

ps. to relief the stress, I found a new <3
Muji is going big around the world due to its quality with affordable price. Their bath salt is amazing.

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