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A change management primer for IT consultants
Determining the ability of the client organization to cope with a major IT project can help consultants find the most appropriate solution. Learn how evaluating the client's roles, resistance, and resilience can help you gauge their capacity for change. by Bob Watkins
Tags: Project, Change Management, Consultant, Information Technology, Change, Strategy, Recruitment & Selection, Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Bob Watkins
Blog posts 2008-07-04
Splunk seeks to revolutionize IT change management using its IT search platform
Splunk, the pioneer of IT search, released its Splunk for Change Management package on Tuesday at Interop Las Vegas 2008. While the standard Splunk product provides a way to consolidate IT logs plus a search engine to dig through them, the new Change Management module is aimed at...
Tags: Information Technology, Splunk, Change Management, Leadership, Strategy, Tools & Techniques, Management, Jason Hiner
Blog posts 2008-04-29
The more things change, the more they stay the same
One of the things I like to do in my Classics Rock blog is to bring back content that we created back in the dawn of TechRepublic to show how little has actually changed in the IT field. Often times, tips which we created for old versions of Office or...
Tags: TechRepublic Inc., Gartner Inc., Change Management, Leadership, Tools & Techniques, Management, John Sheesley
Blog posts 2008-04-28
Project Requirements
Instantly save $500 off the standard course price when you register on TechRepublic or ZDNet! Offer ends April 30, 2008.View Available Dates and LocationsProject failures-or significant cost and schedule overruns-are often caused by a poorly defined project scope. Improve your project management effectiveness by learning to define...
Tags: Requirement, Change Management, Productivity, Project Management, Leadership, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, Management, It Operations, It service Management
Training 2008-04-01
Change Management - a critical IT skill
When I interviewed for my current position as the IT Manager for a small business with less than 100 users, I was asked very specifially how I would handle difficult employees.  Sensing a potential problem I clarified the question asking if they had experienced problems with employees not embracing new...
Tags: Information Technology, Secretary, Computer, Change Management, Productivity, Document Management, Leadership, Scanners, Tools & Techniques, Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Hardware, Peripherals, Tim Malone
Blog posts 2008-01-30
Check these six areas when managing your budget
Many project managers need to estimate the total cost of a project and then track the project expenditures to ensure they stay within the budget. They usually have automated reports from accounting that help them determine the total money spent to date. If he doesn't have that,...
Tags: Expense, Change Management, Leadership, Financial Services, Tools & Techniques, Management, Tom Mochal
Blog posts 2008-01-14
Applied Project Management
View Available Dates and Locations This project simulation course combines lectures, hands-on activities, and individual and team assignments to let you experience managing a project from original concept to archiving the project documents. You'll walk through a complete project management life cycle, including initiating, planning, ...
Tags: Team, Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Team Management, Strategy, Change Management, It Operations, It service Management, Management
Training 2008-01-01
Getting started with IT Change Management
I was asked a few weeks ago in a training course, how to get started with IT Change Management. It was a relatively small organisation with 15 IT staff supporting about 600 IT users. So I have knocked up a few pages of notes based on ITIL version...
Tags: Strategy, IT Services, steve.lawless@..., tightrope, information technology, change management
Discussion threads 2007-10-31
Yelping yet?
Have you started Yelping yet? It's clearly the way of the future.But most companies' haven't yet figured out that it's coming at them - for good or bad. Yelping is all about the democratization of customer care and service. It might be the best thing ever from...
Tags: Media, Management, Lookout, Listening, Leadership, Internet, Innovation, Customer Service, Change Management, Business Intelligence
Blog posts 2007-07-26
Political Infighting ââ¬" what a great thing!
Many companies bemoan the fact that they have so much infighting.  Often they’ll bring in a management consultant or a leadership coach to “fix the problem”.  They’ll ask us the equivalent of, “Why can’t we all just get along?”   I usually surprise folks with this opinion â€" sometimes this kind of infighting...
Tags: Practices, Power, Politics, Personnel, motivation, Management Style, Management, Leadership, Knowledge Retention, Job Roles, HR, Executive, Empowerment, Delegation, Decision Making, Change Management, Career, Business Intelligence, Blogroll
Blog posts 2007-06-07
Manage these three aspects of change in your project
You can't predict every change that will happen in your project, but you can manage them as they occur. It's said that the only constant in the world is change. You can make a great plan, but you can't account for every potential change that may occur....
Tags: Leadership, Tom Mochal, change management, configuration management, Project Management Newsletter, Project, Change, Tools & Techniques, Management
Technical articles 2007-06-04
Track Database Changes with Imperva's ADC Change Management
Having a change control process in effect for your IT infrastructure is a daunting task. Change Management helps to relieve the chaos in an IT infrastructure by having documented processes with how to deal with patches, updates, new equipment requests, audits, and potential issues that arise on a daily basis....
Tags: security, change management
Blog posts 2007-05-23
A Communications plan for 2007
I took a vacation last week first one in over a year and although I didn’t go anywhere I made the decision NOT to pick up my Blackberry or VPN in to my work PC. I left instructions that if there was an EMERGENCY, I should be called –...
Tags: Change Management, Communications, e-mail, Email, Email Management
Blog posts 2006-12-31
Do methodologies make project management seem more complex than it is?
Have you ever been to one of those project management seminars where they preach about the virtues of the latest methodology? You know, the ones where they have extremely expensive consulting services and specially built software to sell to you? I just finished watching an exhaustive...
Tags: Application Developmnent, Assumptions, Change Management, Communication, Consequences, Courtesy, It Frameworks, It Management, Management, Project Management, Project Manager, Project Planning, Quality, release cycle, Trust, Wisdom
Blog posts 2006-12-20
Use this process to estimate effort hours
Initiate Phase ConstraintsOften times the project schedule 'bottoms up' estimating techniques are constrained by agreed upon timeframes and durations established with the project charter. How does a project team overcome these often unrealistic esti
Tags: john.mayo@...
Discussion threads 2006-12-13
Do our brains really resist change?
I just finished reading an article, “The New Science of Change,” in which the author attempts to make the case that we are biologically wired to resist change evidence gathered through brain scans, and therefore change is difficult because our brains make it that way. Furthermore, this resistance to change...
Tags: Change Management, Change, Ramon Padilla
Blog posts 2006-11-12
Do our brains really resist change?
I agree with your conclusion but not your scienceI can't decide if brain function is an introduction to your real topic or if it is an integral part of your discussion. It works well as an introduction but I have some quibbles if it is an integral p
Tags: change management, project management, stress junkie, routine, ice cream, ice cream sale, attack
Discussion threads 2006-11-13
A discussion of four ways to catch up on a project
It has happened to all of us. The schedule falls behind, despite the well-meaning efforts of everyone involved. People make mistakes. We make mistakes. Sometimes, stuff just happens. The question is what do we do about it? Weve got a few tools we...
Tags: deviation
Blog posts 2006-11-09
Is change control getting out of hand?
I have been working network support for about 15 years now. The move to a change control system was something I regarded as a smart move. What I discovered was that it started a whole new empire staffed people with an accountant mentality. The work flow has...
Tags: markross@..., change control
Discussion threads 2006-09-21
Follow this simple scope change management process
Simple is GoodThis simplified process will be easy to follow once you get agreement from all stakeholders at the beginning of the project!
Tags: A1Nut, change management, it management, project management, scope change
Discussion threads 2006-09-19


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