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- How a theory of change affects practical project management
- Today I got an email from an old friend. Well, an old colleague at least - he and I have a running feud lasting the better part of two decades. We've argued about these topics so much our disagreements fall into well oiled paths, and it's fun to...
- Tags: Project Management, Theory, Change, Shannon Kalvar
- Blog posts 2007-08-06
- Avoid these three project management traps
- Has a project management expert infiltrated your organization? If so, here's some advice to help you stay on the right side of the timelines.They're coming. If they haven't invaded your space yet, they will. I'm talking about project management experts who specialize in IT and IT people who certified themselves...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, Jeff Davis, project management, dependency, trap, project management expert
- Technical articles 2001-05-22
- The most famous paradigm you've probably never heard of
- What would you think if someone told you some of your most cherished assumptions are actually the source of the biggest roadblocks you face? Even though it would be mighty unsettling, it'd actually be good news if you're a life-long learner and what they say turns out to be true....
- Tags: Theory, Assumption, John Ricketts
- Blog posts 2007-11-28
- Adopt systems thinking strategy to boost project success
- Deciding when to discuss Peter Senge’s fifth discipline of Systems Thinking is always a little difficult. In his book, The Fifth Discipline, Senge presents the concept up front since it serves as the foundation and the structuring concept beyond the other four disciplines. But I have delayed the discussion...
- Tags: strategy, Donna Fitzgerald, Systems Thinking, Peter Senge
- Technical articles 2003-04-22
- Project managers: Stop "gathering" IT requirements
- How to Negotiate RequirementsI think Paul Glen brought up a great point that project managers need to negotiate requirements rather than gather them. I was hoping the article would get into suggestions on how to do this negotiation. I'm sure we project managers could learn a lot from his ideas.Good...
- Tags: Free trade, Strategy, negotiation, information technology, Paul
- Discussion threads 2008-10-29
- Leverage Q-gates to bolster project quality assurance
- By Ron YounackAnyone who has ever managed a project has a war story or twoto tell. A project that goes awry because the staff tried to do too much, toofast, or too cheap happens much too often. Unfortunately, it's the professionalproject manager who often tries to juggle the time/cost/functionality/qualityparadigm on...
- Tags: Guest Contributor, Q-gate, QA, quality control, team
- Technical articles 2004-06-07
- Mentor advises project managers to plan wisely, weigh risks
- When a project manager is bogged down in the middle of a tough job, it's sometimes difficult to find time for advance planning and review. But a mentor explains how a little forethought can save time and prevent project disasters.By Tom MochalWhen is just doing the work not enough to...
- Tags: Team management, Telecom & Utilities, Manufacturing, Strategy, Guest Contributor, Juan
- Technical articles 2000-07-17
- 10 things that can send an IT project off the rails
- waterfall management styleSome of the points in the article are tied much to one specific paradigm of project management. An example is #1 sloppy requirements. Are you completely sure that if the specification is not done fully up front, then it is an indication of a project in trouble?I think...
- Tags: Strategy, rma@..., rail, IT Project, Scope Creep, information technology
- Discussion threads 2007-09-25
- Finding the key to your future IT management success
- IT managers can put themselves on the road to success by spending more time learning how to motivate staff and less time trying to master new technology. This edition of Artner's Law explains why.The beginning of the year is traditionally a good time to plan for the future. In most...
- Tags: Strategy, information technology, IT administration, Bob Artner, Artner, technical manager
- Technical articles 2000-12-28
- Best Practices in Test Management for Product Testing
- The changing dynamics of business is bringing about a paradigm shift in the way organizations ensure reliability, security and predictable performance of their IT solutions. The price of failure is high; defective solutions impact revenue, profit and customer loyalty, thus affecting business competitiveness. Today, a software product is that critical...
- Tags: Performance, Best Practice, Infosys Technologies Ltd., Performance Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management
- White papers 2009-01-06
- The reuse environment is more about culture than technology
- Everyone knows component reuse is a good thing, so why doesn't everyone follow that model? The answer probably has more to do with people than technology. Find out about the factors that can make or break your reuse efforts.Of all the revolutions that have promised to speed business application development...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Tom Mochal, reuse environment
- Technical articles 2002-01-23
- Learning the ABCs of cost analysis
- One way to make better business decisions is to view the costs of products and services with activity-based costing. Known as "ABC," this proven method may change the way you do business. This article will show you how it's done.By Bradley S. LittDetermining the costs of a project is no...
- Tags: Managerial accounting, Operational accounting, ABC Inc., gantthead , Activity Based Costing, accounting, business process, analysis
- Technical articles 2001-06-13
- An XP hybrid methodology for large-scale projects
- Though XP offers strong techniques for rapid deployment, it's weaker in project controls. However, you can create a more solid methodology by marrying XP's useful features to other methodologies. Learn why you should consider XP for larger projects.Opinions over the usefulness and suitability of agile or extreme programming are diverse,...
- Tags: Development tools, Scott Robinson, Microsoft Windows XP, DSDM, programming, large-scale project, technique
- Technical articles 2002-10-02
- How to manage telecommuters
- After some of his employees expressed an interest in working from home, this manager consulted Project Management mentor Tom Mochal on the pros and cons of telecommuting.TechRepublic columnist Tom Mochal receives dozens of e-mails each week from members with questions about project management problems. He shares his tips on a...
- Tags: Tom Mochal, telecommuting
- Technical articles 2002-04-04
- Customer resource management is within reach with MySQL
- MySQL is great for building customer resource management CRM back ends to Web sites. It's already an integral part of many Web sites, and its pricing model is almost unbeatable. Furthermore, in active sites, there is probably already an impressive volume of CRM data just waiting to be mined.Working as...
- Tags: Sales force management, Databases, Sanders Kaufman, Jr., customer resource management, ISAM, Innobase InnoDB, MySQL
- Technical articles 2003-07-07
- Objects for projects: OOP's domination of procedural programming
- Object-oriented programming OOP now dominates the procedural-programming paradigm in many application areas. Developers often choose OOP and scripting languages—such as C++, Java, and Python—for project implementations because these languages provide a way to form appropriately realistic models of real systems and processes. Actually, avoiding OOP technology may produce less-than-optimal designs...
- Tags: OOA/OOD/OOP, Programming languages, Patrick Andrews, object-oriented programming, procedural-programming, Java
- Technical articles 2003-02-13
- Self-managed teams can result in increased productivity
- TechRepublic columnist Tom Mochal receives dozens of e-mails each week from members with questions about project management problems. He shares his tips on a host of project management issues in this Q&A format.QuestionI remember a lot of information being published in the eighties and early nineties about self-managed teams. At...
- Tags: team, self-managed team, Tom Mochal
- Technical articles 2003-07-31
- Red zone management: Going the last 20 yards
- Learn about the red zone and what it means to your IT department's success in shifting economic times in this review of "Red Zone Management: Changing the Rules for Pivotal Times."Dutch Holland’s new playbook may not take its place alongside Tom Peters on your management bookshelf, but it isn’t really...
- Tags: Strategy, Scott Robinson, Holland, Red Zone Management, red zone
- Technical articles 2002-10-23
- Investigate an agile, lightweight, "value-up" approach to software engineering
- Most accepted project management wisdom comes from the world of roads and bridges, where design risks are low, design cost is small relative to build cost, and the opportunity to to deliver incremental value is rare. This "work-down" approach is easily envisioned as burning down a list of tasks, and...
- Tags: Software, Software Engineering, Addison-Wesley, Tools & Techniques, Development Tools, Software Development, Management, Software/Web Development
- Book chapters 2006-11-15
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