Category: IT Best Practices
10 Essential Steps to Portfolio Management
These 10 steps provided by Heather Champoux are quick and insightful ways of making sure your project portfolio starts and operates without a hitch. First making the caveat that certain assumptions are made for the steps to work (such as an onboard executive management, defined processes and a standard PPM Tool in place), Champoux goes [...]
Three Keys to Help Manage the Queue
Good project management is just as much about working on the right projects as it is having the right projects lined up for future work.
Three years in a PMO: Lessons learned
NOTICE: THE AUTHOR HAS RESTRICTED ACCESS TO THIS ARTICLE SINCE OUR PUBLICATION. WE APOLOGIZE FOR THE INCONVENIENCE. In reflecting on three years of establishing and maintaining a PMO, the Project Management Cheerleader lists what works, what doesn’t, and what would have saved time. With insights into management involvement, feedback, and best practice updates, this blog post [...]
What IT Managers Can Learn From The Failure Of A British IT Project
Dr. Jim Anderson sees the value in the failure of a British government project to update the outdated healthcare records system. According to Dr. Anderson, the big take away from the too expensive, too complex project was that big is bad. He advises that when stakeholders come to you with a large complex project, you [...]
5 Key Components of a Project You Need to Get Right
There are as many ways to complete a project as there are types of projects. But found in any successful project are these 5
IT Best Practices With ITIL
This post covers an enormous amount of best practices relating to ITIL. Citing the various functions and processes in an ITIL organization, the post diligently explains and gives examples of how ITIL can be utilized more successfully with a few of the tips contained within.
How to Conquer Information Overload
We in the IT world are bombarded with information as soon as we get through the office door (and sometimes as soon as our alarms go off in the morning). Between the morning pile of emails, meetings, webinars and presentations we must dig through, days can go by without feeling anything substantial was accomplished. This [...]
Analytics-Business Alignment Needs Work
Collecting data is important –but if that data doesn’t go any further than your desk, it’s useless for driving business alignment and helping in making intelligent business decisions. Beth Schultz of All Analytics writes this article using the recent Gartner “Predicts 2012” report, and draws the conclusion that while companies may have access to more [...]
Why Projects Succeed – Clear Business Objectives
Projects succeed because of clear business objectives: they dictate how projects should proceed in the face of difficulty
10 Tips To Manage Project Portfolio Management (PPM) Processes
There are plenty of suggestions on how to properly run a PPM process – but these 10 tips from TemplatesPMO shine a light on the more ambiguous processes around PPM. These include tips such as how to manage resources involved in the work, providing rewards and incentives for process improvement and thinking beyond the methodology [...]
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