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- When to consider a project management information system
- A project management information system PMIScan provide a framework to help guide the progress of your next major IT project. Here's how one company decided that a PMIS was needed to help increase project success rates.We all know that accurate, timely, and relevant information is essential to the decision-making process...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, Strategy, George Sifri, project management information system, project management
- Technical articles 2002-12-04
- Tuning a PMIS for top performance
- Part two of this series looks at the key modules of a project management information system PMIS and where the system fits into the project management life cycle.A project management information system PMIS contains the information essential for initiating, planning, executing, controlling, and closing a project. For project managers, a...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, Strategy, George Sifri, performance, project management information system, project management
- Technical articles 2002-12-09
- When to consider a project management information system
- A project management information system PMIS can provide a framework to help guide the progress of IT projects. Here's how one company decided that a PMIS was needed to help increase project success rates. by George Sifri
- Tags: Project, Information System, Information, Project Management Information System, Improvement Objective, Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, It Operations, It service Management, Management, George Sifri
- Blog posts 2008-10-07
- Tuning a project management information system for top performance
- George Sifri looks at the key functions and modules of a project management information system PMIS and where the system fits into the project management life cycle. by George Sifri
- Tags: Project, Information System, Performance, Project Manager, Information, Project Management Information System, Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, It Operations, It service Management, Management, George Sifri
- Blog posts 2008-10-08
Additional Resources
- When to consider a project management information system
- vendor recommendations?can someone please recommend some good vendors that they are using for PMIS?Read! And TFSA PMIS system is just a tool, its not a solution to the problem of poorly managed projects.Before looking at specific PMIS systems - read extensively around the subject so that you understand the nature...
- Tags: Project management, Tools & Techniques, PMIS, TFS
- Discussion threads 2008-10-08
- CIMPA Enhances Reliability of Its Financial and Project Management Information System
- An Airbus subsidiary since July 2003, CIMPA is a specialty services company that produces engineering and industrial information systems. The company wanted to build an IT system that integrates all of CIMPA's accounting, financial, and project-management applications. The challenge was to improve management of it financial and project flows; speed...
- Tags: Project Management, Oracle Corp., Financial, CIMPA, Financial Accounting, Finance
- Case studies
- Planning a Web-based project management system
- Here's how one large construction company planned a Web-based project management system. You'll learn firsthand about how the company met the challenges presented by a massive project.Project management can be difficult, no matter the size of the project. But managing a project involving hundreds of thousands of documents that must...
- Tags: Team management, Construction, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, George Sifri, Web based project management system, Web Based Project Management, team, Web
- Technical articles 2002-10-28
- Submissions from an employee of Interneer, developer of Intellect web-based Project Management Software
- Submissions from an employee of Interneer, developer of Intellect web-based Project Management Softwareblog rootHuman-Based Workflows and Project Management SoftwareWorkflows exist in some form at every company, in every industry. Traditionally, the term has been used to describe transactional processes. Credit card information, for example, is submitted on a website. The...
- Tags: Process improvement, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, Operational planning, Web, msteffen@..., workflow, project management, Project Management Software, Microsoft Excel, Human Based Workflows
- Discussion threads 2006-06-27
- Italdesign - Giugiaro Reduces Project Management Cycle From Months to Just Weeks or Days
- Italdesign-Giugiaro designs, engineers, and constructs auto body prototypes for global distribution. Italdesign-Giugiaro wanted to develop a rapid, efficient project management cycle and provide users with real-time project monitoring tools, enabling immediate reaction to changing needs. The challenge was to adopt a new management information system that helps the company to...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, It Operations, It service Management, Management
- Case studies 2008-01-01
- PT-SI Develops an Integrated Network Management Information System Using CA's Allfusion Gen
- Portugal Telecom - Sistemas de Informacao (PT-SI) is a young member of the PT Group, the largest telecommunications and media company in Portugal. With the goal of analyzing and designing a new integrated information system to support network access management, PT-SI launched the SIGRA Project. The need for innovation and...
- Tags: Information System, Network, MIS, Computer Associates International Inc., Network Management, CA AllFusion, PT-SI, Strategy, Networking, Management
- Case studies
- Challenges to implementing a Web-based project management system
- Our columnist shares the challenges faced, and obstacles met, by one company deploying a Web-based project management system.Helping plan and implement a Web-based project management system for one of my clients, a global construction company, presented a number of challenges. One of the main challenges was developing a system that...
- Tags: Team management, George Sifri, Web Based Project Management, team, Web based project management system, team member, Web
- Technical articles 2002-11-04
- Establish a project management office for object-oriented application development
- Have you taken on the task of resuscitating a failed object-oriented application development project? Creating a project management office to act as an umbrella for integrating and unifying OOAD activities may just save the day.By Ken RobbIt’s likely that at some point in your consulting career, you’ve been brought into...
- Tags: UML, Tools & Techniques, Guest Contributor, OOAD PMO, RUP, project management office, project management
- Technical articles 2001-04-23
- Align green project management with ISO 14000
- Tom Mochal, PMP, winner of the 2005 PMI Distinguished Contribution Award, has been TechRepublic's resident project management mentor for the past five years. He is President of TenStep, Inc., a methodology development, training and consulting company. This column was co-authored with Andrea Krasnoff, PMP, Director of Consulting Services at TenStep,...
- Tags: ISO 14000, Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Iso standards, Process Improvement, Strategy, It Operations, It service Management, Management, Quality, Business Operations, Tom Mochal
- Blog posts 2008-02-19
- Getting derailed projects back on track
- Projects often go crazy and veer off track. Project managers can make project course corrections by developing a structured process that lets them assess the situation, determine whether recovery is possible, and turn around the project.Project recovery: A four-part seriesThis is the first part in a series of four articles...
- Tags: Team management, George Sifri, team
- Technical articles 2003-03-19
- New to autonomous Project Management
- For the last 18 mths I have been outsourced to a global finance company as the IT Coordinator for the process of moving people around the building, be it 1-5 or 5-500.I took over from my current boss about 12 months ago, and took over a very good system. I...
- Tags: PMBoK, pmj_2003@..., project management
- Q&A 2004-11-27
- design and implimantation of a system proposal detailed
- PROPOSALS ARE INVITED FOR THE DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF AN ELECTRONIC PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM The following is an outline of what the perspective system should be capable of. 1. ESSENTIAL OUTCOMES OD AN ELECTRONIC PMS TOOL A. The electronic system should be able to link and differentiate the PMS as...
- Tags: Strategy, fancydye@..., Integrated Development Plan, electronic system
- Discussion threads 2007-07-18
- Video: The top five reasons why project management fails
- What are the top reasons why projects fail in your organization?Original post:http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/hiner/?p=894RE: Video: The top five reasons why project management failsI think relevant points are made. One that surprises me is not in the top five is a lack of project management skill / experience. Project management is distinctly different...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, Strategy, project management, top-five, information technology, video
- Discussion threads 2008-12-10
- How to accurately estimate and forecast in project management
- Reality vs PracticalityWhile I agree with the author with respect to some of the fundamental tasks that need to be performed prior to the coding cycle, its seems that individuals who have never written code in their life tend to believe that the preliminary steps are unnecessary. They tend to...
- Tags: work breakdown structure, project management
- Discussion threads 2008-10-23
- Project Management: What do you do when change management creates ethical issues?
- In IT, as in many knowledge fields, we try to plan ideal systems. Specifically, we aim to create systems approximating best practices or a theoretical model within the constraints of budget, time, and functionality. Accepting the three traditional constraints chafes, but as professionals, we learn to live with it. Sometimes,...
- Tags: Shannon T. Kalvar, change management, project management
- Technical articles 2004-04-08
- Make an effective project management process a high priority for application development projects
- By Joe Feliu in conjunction with the Enterprise ComputingInstituteAlthough projects occur throughout all organizations in theIT group, the most urgent need is to have a documented project managementprocess that is followed for application development projects. Businessliterature is replete with case studies of projects gone wrong, and careerssidetracked. If your organization...
- Tags: application development, Project, Project Control, project management, Project Management Process
- Technical articles 2005-07-18
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