Vendor Management: Part of Project Lifecycle
More often, we have been encountering IT projects where vendor management is a key enabler of the project lifecycle. Vendors are involved in the option evaluation, assist in development of the solution...
View ArticleService Oriented Project Management (SOPM); Bridging Three Worlds
With all this talk about Business Process Reengineering (BPR), and the latest industry focus on innovation, I’ve been piecing together a model that brings together the best of BPR, Innovation, and...
View ArticlePMO Process Primer
Last month, I mentioned a four-part series on Projects@Work about establishing PMOs. The first installment was on defining the role of your PMO up front. Not sure what took so long for the second...
View ArticleITIL Service Desk Software: Market Consolidation …
Mercury acquires ITIL service desk software vendor to improve the depth of its offering. Rapid integration of this acquisition should position Mercury as a viable competitor in the service desk space...
View Article5 Lessons in Leadership
The following Lessons in Leadership were originally presented at a recent CIO Leadership Conference but are also applicable to PM’s: 10. Failure is not an option (as per Apollo 13′s project leader Gene...
View ArticleProject Management System: Stakeholder Visibility
Transportation industry project management system enables visibility through the project lifecycle to stakeholders. NJIT research team collaborates with users in Houston to customize the system to its...
View ArticleAgile Project Management: Mainstream at Last?
There’s an excellent writeup on the LeadingAnswers blog site about the rise, fall, and rediscovery of Agile Project Management. I like the “Universal Lifecycle of New Technology” which outlines how...
View ArticleTechnology Lifecycle
In business cases, we consider the one-time project costs and the recurring impact on operating budgets. With green computing on our agenda, a lifecycle perspective is needed for technology...
View ArticleProject Managers Specialize in the Project Management Lifecycle
US News builds on a NYT article regarding Tim Geithner’s role as Treasury Secretary, which got me thinking about parallels to the project management space. … Should the project manager who started the...
View ArticleSunset Projects
Should server, application, or platform retirements be managed as specific “sunset projects” or built into the original business case with set-aside funding for the shutdown phase of the life-cycle,...
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