MERL Tech DC 2018

International development organizations and software providers are interdependent. What are the hallmarks of a fruitful relationship with your software provider? What are the best practices for managing that partnership, setting mutual expectations, and ensuring long-term success? Chemonics and DevResults will team up to discuss 1) Chemonics’ successes and lessons learned with rolling out enterprise-wide M&E system, 2) DevResults’ observations across scores of organizations who are working to do the same, and 3) the collaboration, compromise, and tangible steps taken on both sides to ensure success with data management for M&E. Chris Gegenheimer and Chris Huey of Chemonics, along with Leslie Sage of DevResults, will examine choices about staffing, timing, ongoing support, feature requests, resource allocation, and more. The old saying about software is, “good, cheap, fast: pick two”, but Chemonics and DevResults have spent years maximizing the balance between all three. Join our presentation and Q&A to find out how.