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- Competing Through Cooperation: Standard-Setting in Wireless Telecommunications
- The study discussed in this paper examines cooperative standard-setting in wireless telecommunications. Focusing on the competition among firms to influence formal standardization, the roles of standard-setting committees, private alliances, and technical consortia are highlighted. The empirical context is Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP), an international standards development organization. Panel data...
- Tags: Change Request, 3GPP, Context, Telecommunications, Panel Data, Cellular Phones, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
- White papers 2007-02-05
- RAAS WorkFlow Manager (zip)
- RAAS WorkFlow Manager allows you to gain control over your SQL database development change process. Requested changes go through a formalized approval process prior to release or upgrade script inclusion, giving your SQL experts the authority they need. Quickly and accurately generate SQL schema and/or data upgrade scripts for any...
- Tags: Change Request, SQL, RAAS WorkFlow Manager, Programming Languages, Databases, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- Software downloads 2006-11-30
- Follow this simple scope change management process
- Tom Mochal provides a simple scope change process that you can use on your project. Scope is defined at a high level by describing the boundaries and deliverables of your project. You add more detail to that definition through the gathering of your business requirements. Once these...
- Tags: Tom Mochal, change management, change request, scope change request, Scope Change Log, Project Management Newsletter
- Technical articles 2006-09-12
- Understand the role of the sponsor in scope change management
- When you're managing scope on your project, keep the following three items in mind as it relates to the sponsor. Many problems related to scope change management are based on not understanding the role of a sponsor in this important project management process. In general, the sponsor...
- Tags: Tom Mochal, Project management, change management, Project Management Newsletter, Change Request, Sponsor, Tools & Techniques, Management
- Technical articles 2006-06-13
- How to Regain Access to an Exchange Server 2003 Organization
- Exchange Server 2003 relies on a complex but detailed and strict access control hierarchy. This means that a person as an administrator have to check whether any users will have any access to the Exchange Organization itself. The feature of delegation access to lots of logical administrators provides a greater...
- Tags: E-mail servers, TechGenix, Microsoft Exchange Server 2003, Microsoft Exchange Server, change request, rights-management, administrator, access control, knowledge
- White papers 2005-12-20
- Utilize a scope freeze during the drive toward implementation
- Managing scope effectively does not mean that you turn down all scope change requests, but there comes a time when there has to be a freeze. Managing scope effectively does not mean that you turn down all scope change requests. The art of managing scope effectively is to...
- Tags: Tom Mochal, Project Management Newsletter, Team, Change Request, Problem, Freeze, Team Management, Management
- Technical articles 2005-12-03
- Keep projects on track with this scope change request log
- If your projects undergo frequent changes, this log will help you track the requests and make sure they get resolved. One key to keeping a project on track is to maintain careful records of change requests. To help with that process, project management expert Tom Mochal created...
- Tags: Change Request, Project Management, It Operations, It service Management
- Download resources 2005-07-28
- Learn how to calculate the cost of a scope change request
- more than 3... try 7...quote: "...three basic components of the change management process ..."overlooked:#4: test plan -- you have to tell QA _before_ deployment so they upgrade the test plan#5: regulatory compliance -- CCO or CMO chief compliance officer or the compliance mgt office must be informed in advance to...
- Tags: change request, compliance, howard_nyc@..., it management, plan #5, supportablity, test plan #5
- Discussion threads 2005-05-09
- Learn how to calculate the cost of a scope change request
- The project manager and project team are accountable for understanding the total impact of a scope change to a project. This article describes the elements that need your attention. When you receive a request for a scope change, you should consider the three basic components of the change...
- Tags: Tom Mochal, change request, benefit, scope change, Project Management Newsletter, Project, Change, Benefits, Human Resources
- Technical articles 2005-04-26
- Use these techniques to control small scope change requests
- Budget for change requestsWhat percent of project budgets is reserved for change requests?It dependsI like to set aside a nice misc fund of my budget (10% or so) for various things and I think change requests would fall into that.DependsIf it's an inhouse project then pick a number.Try 5% or...
- Tags: change request, it management, marviem@..., technique
- Discussion threads 2005-04-27
- Use these techniques to control small scope change requests
- You have all heard the mantra of scope change management --make sure that all scope change requests get approved by the sponsor orsponsor designee. This should be obvious for large scope change requests.However, it's not always practical to gain individual approval for every five-,ten- or twenty-hour scope change request. However,...
- Tags: change request, Tom Mochal, contingency, technique
- Technical articles 2005-04-12
- Download this equipment change request form to take the pressure off IT
- hellomy speachWell it's a startFill in the request, pressure off after all it's on paper now. Even better you can re-design the collection system every now and then and unfortunately lose all those tasks you didn't want to do.Yes you need to get what's wanted written down, managing the requests...
- Tags: change request, ernesthansford@..., information technology, it management, paper
- Discussion threads 2005-04-03
- # of Change Requests per promotion metric
- Does anyone have to deal with a metric that looks at the number of Change Requests used to document a promotion?If we don't have at least 5, then the entire team is 'dinged' on our reviews.This not only includes software defects coding bugs not found in testing, but it also...
- Tags: CAB, change request, it management, Patty100
- Discussion threads 2004-12-15
- Improving Economics of Blades With VMware
- Today IT efficiency is critical for competitive viability. However, IT organizations face many challenges, including, growing capacity while conserving or reducing operations cost, improving service availability and change request response time and increasing consistency and predictability. VMware ESX Server with VirtualCenter deployed on blade servers is an effective solution to...
- Tags: Change Request, Blade, Information Technology, VMware Inc., Virtualization, Utility Computing, Blade Servers, Servers, Strategy, Hardware, Management
- White papers 2004-12-02
- Tech Tip: Establish strong change request procedures to protect your DR plan
- By Mike TalonEven the best disaster recovery plans caneasily fall prey to failure. Your plan may encounter errant servicepacks and software updates, hacker infiltration, and a host ofother unexpected situations. But the number one factor that can decimateyour DR plan--without any help from an actual disaster (although...
- Tags: change request, change request procedure, disaster recovery, Mike Talon
- Technical articles 2003-12-08
- Implement change management with these six steps
- Change management deals with how changes to the system are managed so they don't degrade system performance and availability. Change management is especially critical in today's highly decentralized, network-based environment where users themselves may be applying many changes. A key cause of high cost of ownership is the application of...
- Tags: change request, change management
- Technical articles 2003-12-01
- Project managers can accommodate scope changes--to a point
- Nothing makes the hair stand up on the back of a consultant's neck more than "we'd like to make a few small changes to the project," especially if clients do this a lot. Know when to put your foot down and when to accommodate their requests.Each week, project management veteran...
- Tags: Nothing, Tom Mochal, change request, Chi
- Technical articles 2002-10-28
- Project managers can handle scope changes--to a point
- Nothing makes the hair stand up on the back of a manager's neck more than "we'd like to make a few small changes to the project," especially if clients do this a lot. Know when to put your foot down and when to accommodate their requests.Project management veteran Tom Mochal...
- Tags: Tom Mochal, Nothing, change request, Chi
- Technical articles 2002-11-01
- Requirements Traceability in the Change Request Process
- This article addresses the value of tracing requirements in the change request process for better project management.
- Tags: Change Request, Compuware Corp.
- White papers 2002-02-01
- Download TechRepublic's form for tracking change requests
- Is scope creep ruining your projects? Stop creep before it starts with this project scope log from TechRepublic columnist Tom Mochal.Scope creep can happen at any stage of a project's life. An effective way to contain a project to its original goal is to document every change made to the...
- Tags: E-mail, Dana Norton, change request, Microsoft Project
- Technical articles 2001-07-13
